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TIL That unlike other fish, monkfish is not kosher.

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neMdG TIL of Roger Carel, a actor and voice actor from France, who dubbed many iconic American characters from America into french for their audiences, including C-3PO, Winnie The Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Yogi Bear, ALF, Kermit The Frog and more.
waY1 TIL that Spaghetti is a plural for Spaghetto.
9wrKD TIL nearly 24% of women living in England in the year 1800 were named Mary while nearly 22% of the men were named John. The popularity of the names declined over the years to nearly 4% and 5% respectively by 1994.
mxgly TIL that the terms "lowercase letters" and "uppercase letters" are known as such because older letter printing presses stored the two types of letters on separate cases. The shift key is also called the shift key due to it being used to shift the two cases.
ADvZl TIL that 95 year old Dick Van Dyke uses LightWave 3D and has been doing computer animation since owning a Commodore Amiga in 1991.