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TIL The Onion was founded by Seann William Scott’s brother

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nWVRW TIL There are more than 300 types of headaches, but only about 10% of headaches have a known cause. The brain tissue and the skull are never responsible since they don't have nerves that register pain
ADkL7 TIL of the Small Penis Rule, which is when authors create a character based off a real person but give the character a small penis, so that the real person is less likely to accuse them of libel, since then they'd have to say they have a small penis too.
woZWJ TIL that the world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old. While the median age a dog reaches tends to be about 10-15 years, the Australian cattle dog, ‘Bluey’, survived to the ripe old age of 29.5.
awEOL TIL about the Mandaeans, and ethno-religious group native to southern Mesopotamia. They were likely the first to practice baptism, and are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity.
KO5VB TIL about the 'Portrait of Dr. Gachet', the last portrait painted by Vincent Van Gogh before his death, which was sold for the then record sum of 82.5 million USD in 1990. It is one of Van Gogh’s most important works, but has been withheld from the public by its anonymous owner for almost 30 years.