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TIL you can become a certified rat tickler.

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1aan7 TIL that town planning was once an Olympic event, as were several other architectural disciplines. The Olympics were to be about the arts as much as sport and contestants could compete in literature, music and several other non-sporting pursuits
kOdeg TIL Stephen Colbert grew up in South Carolina as the youngest of 11 children. His dad and two of his brothers were killed in a plane crash when he was 10. He became introverted, spent his time reading (especially Tolkien), but eventually found a way to express himself through acting.
p8J5G TIL according to a new 3D model of the Milky Way, our galaxy is warped and shaped like the popular brand of potato chip. “I’d say that it is shaped like a Pringle” said Radek Poleski, an astronomer at Ohio State University who helped to create the new map.
VBAV0 TIL that a bird(penguin) can go to greater depths in the ocean than most fish
VBk7D TIL that the movie Nosferatu (1922) was banned in Sweden until 1972 because it contained extreme horror.