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TIL Bill Gates was granted Knighthood following his commitment of $200 million to Cambridge to help fund AIDS vaccine research

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Jn78 TIL Jesus’ foreskin is supposed to have magic powers.
Y717v TIL Cookie Monster has a ‘real name’ — and it isn’t Cookie Monster
yjy8 TIL that in 1930 a zoologist went to Syria and brought back 11 newly discovered hamsters. Only 2 of them bred and their offspring were sent to laboratories around the world. Today, the hamsters you see in pet stores are most likely descendants of these two hamsters.
mxPLY TIL of The Simpsons and Philosophy university course.
LQ1JV TIL that the voice of the grinch and narrator in the original how the grinch stole Christmas special was Boris Karloff, a horror actor best known for playing Frankenstein and the Mummy in the Universal monster movies.