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TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television

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4on6 TIL Sean Connery Wore a Toupee In All The James Bond Movies (Excluding Doctor No). He Began Losing His Hair At 21.
a0vM TIL Teddy Roosevelt was a staunch conservationist and banned Christmas trees from the White House
b914p TIL Fondue was popularized in Switzerland by the Swiss Cheese Union as a ploy to increase cheese consumption. They created and promoted recipes for the ""spiritual defence of Switzerland".
ba0p TIL that the band Jet’s second album was rated a 0.0 out of 10 by Pitchfork magazine and in lieu of writing a review, a YouTube video of a monkey urinating into his own mouth was put up on their site.
yVyMv TIL In some places in history counterfeitting coins was punishable with being boiled alive in oil