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TIL Bowen Yang was voted "Most Likely to Be a Cast Member on Saturday Night Live" in his high school's yearbook

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Oo0J6 TIL that many printers will print out a pattern of microscopic yellow dots on every page as fingerprints to allow authorities to trace back the precise origins of the printout.
b9x5p TIL in Victorian times, the cheapest form of accommodation available was a “penny hang”. You could literally pay a penny to sleep over a ROPE. This was commonly used by drunk sailors who had spent all of their money and is the origin of the term “hangover“.
1aBEP TIL that grizzly bears are capable of running 35 MPH, easily besting even the fastest human on Earth by 8 MPH (Usain Bolt @ 27 MPH)
l7MN7 TIL Japan has several "Nose Tombs" which contain tens of thousands of severed noses from Korea.
dNQB TIL that in the past many religions had “Sacred prostitutes” that would engage in sexual intercourse for rituals.