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TIL only one US President (Woodrow Wilson) has had a PhD

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5MvD TIL purple is known as the colour of royalty because in ancient times the only way of producing the rare purple dye was from an extraction process of a murex snail by the Phoenicians. This process was very expensive and subsequently valued higher than gold.
X0px8 TIL there is a Danish children's animated series about a middle-aged man with an extremely long prehensile penis.
yVD98 TIL that in Back to the Future (1985), the iconic DeLorean time machine was almost a refrigerator. The filmmakers scrapped the fridge idea because kids might try to climb inside and get trapped, so they chose a car instead.
Z8WRD TIL that only 39 people in the world has climbed Everest and K2 without botteled oxygen.
GYAp4 TIL Maryland only has 2 known natural lakes