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TIL: The characters in the animated series Archer are modeled after real people.

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grPny TIL Nicaragua's government is so corrupt that the vice president is the wife of the president.
9OdM TIL prohibition made it a crime to produce, sell, or transport alcoholic beverages, but anyone who already had bottles of old liquor stocked away was free to consume them, so many rich people stockpiled reserves before the law passed
Z8nyo TIL of the Tricuspid Valve Annuloplasty Ring which prevents children with faulty organs or heart problems from needing more than one surgery as they get older.
kOyj4 TIL of the Truth about Hansel and Gretel - a book that purportedly uncovered the origins of the myth: a baker named Hans Metzler and his sister Gretel killed an old woman for her recipe for gingerbread. Wildly popular, the book was soon discovered to be a hoax
yVLe TIL The reason our voices sound different to us when recorded & played back is due to our skull bones