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TIL Hugh Hefner’s daughter is more than double the age of his fiance

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nWRY TIL that if the Earth stopped spinning, the oceans would migrate to the poles, creating one equatorial megacontinent and two polar oceans, submerging nearly all of the northern U.S., Europe, Canada and Russia.
loMwr TIL That more than half the PhD's in the United States are fake, totaling up to 50,000 fake PhD's every year, along with 3,300 unrecognized and fake universities in the world.
j6yBM TIL that in 2017, a truck carrying 7,500 pounds of slime eels overturned on Oregon's Highway 101, causing a massive slime spill, a multiple-car pile-up, and traffic.
e0rn4 TIL, Disney's the Parent Trap was an adaptation of a German novel that had been adapted three times, in three different countries before Disney got the rights to it
nX0G TIL it is rarely necessary to wait 24 hours before filing a missing person’s report; law enforcement agencies in the US stress the importance of a prompt investigation. The UK government web site says explicitly in large type “You don’t have to wait 24 hours before contacting the police”