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TIL Adele has the best selling album of the 21st century

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kvM4 TIL NY State Assembly member Steve Katz was pulled over for speeding when he was found with marijuana. He received 20 hours of community service, a $75 fee, and his ticket was reduced to a parking violation.
PYBWE TIL about Izecksohn's Brazilian treefrog (Xenohyla truncata), the only known frugivorous frog species. It feeds on fruit, seeds, pods, pulp flowers and arthropods. It locates the fruit and simply snaps it, swallowing it whole. They eat insects just like any other frog when fruits are unavailable.
GYewG TIL that "Dumpster" is a company. However, like Band-Aids, the word is so commonly used that very few people know that Dumpster refers to a company and not the trash container
g4k8 TIL World’s fastest talking man can articulate more than 500 words per minute and sings Michael Jackson’s BAD in 20 seconds.
ZpYM4 TIL People brought their kids to watch Alien in the theaters (many apparently thinking it was going to be something more akin to Star Wars)