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TIL Speedy Gonzales was banned by Cartoon Network for being an offensive stereotype, only to be returned after mass protest by the hispanic-american community.

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MJgV TIL that the average American household receives 848 pieces of junk mail per household, equal to 1.5 trees every year—more than 100 million trees for all U.S. households combined.
ZjRp TIL With 25 billion hours (2.85 million years) of total game playtime, people have played call of duty for longer than the course of human existence.
bJK7 TIL that Jadwiga of Poland (d. 1399) was a female king. Polish law had no provision for a female ruler (queen regnant), but did not specify that kings had to be male.
QKBE TIL as a result of the ambiguous boundary between the U.S. and Canada, in 1832, a region of territory in northern New Hampshire declared independence as a sovereign state named the Republic of Indian Stream
pOa8 TIL Jerry Seinfeld performed the exact same standup material the first (in 1982) and last (2015) times he appeared on Late Night with David Letterman.