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TIL that Elmo once testified before Congress

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9YWr TIL that if Wayne Gretzky never scored a single goal, he would still be the career leading point scorer in NHL history.
nnEr TIL until he turned 12, Robert Pattinson’s elder sisters dressed him up as a girl and introduced him as “Claudia” to strangers
OQdg TIL a Norwegian rockslide (~8000 years ago) is believed to have created a tsunami so powerful, it turned Britain from a European peninsula into an island.
XEdgk TIL that in 1984 a group of paleontologists discovered a 50,000-Year-Old Bison frozen in the permafrost in Alaska and consumed part of its neck meat. They described it as tasting like mud but smelling like beef and mushrooms.
nWXpr TIL Chris Hemsworth earned just $150,000 for his first appearance as Thor and the film brought in nearly $450 million globally