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TIL Jim Henson made hilariously violent muppet-like coffee commercials back in the 1950s

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Y7d87 TIL in British English they say "pyjamas" instead of "pajamas".
bXL9 TIL in 1983 a 61 Year Old Farmer Won a 544 mile endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.
9reX TIL: a russian farmer’s wife gave birth to 69 children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets… when she died her husband remarried and had another 18 kids.
dYmB TIL the Bororo are one of the few groups of people who all have the same blood type. They all have type O blood.
6E4jX TIL Yugoslav people still exist. Most of them were of mixed descent, being unable to identify as part of any specific ethnicity. Thus they chose to identify as “Yugoslavs”, and stuck with it.