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TIL Milhouse got his name because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”

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nemW TIL The line of emperors in Japan has continued since 680 BC
1GBV TIL Sweden has a nuclear bunker system under Stockholm that has some of the biggest servers hosted at. ex: Wiki leaks and The Pirate Bay.
gMx5X TIL ‘My Humps’ by The Black Eyed Peas is considered by many critics to be the worst song of all time, with one stating it ‘may actually represent the nadir of human achievement’
Knja TIL that a Texas woman tried to kill a snake by dousing it in gasoline and setting it on fire… in a final act of defiance it slithered to her house and caught it on fire
5Y6kR TIL after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed 200.000 people, UN peacekeepers from Nepal were sent to the country. Sadly, the peacekeepers brought cholera with them leading to a massive outbreak which infected 800.000 people, and killing at least 9000.