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TIL that Matt Stone and Trey Parker created Cartman based on what they thought Archie Bunker from All in the Family would have been like as a child.

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6E5ZQ TIL Mexico City is 7200 feet above sea level which had a major affect on athletes in the 1968 Olympic games
MeBV TIL That 7 of the top 10 richest congress members are democrats.
VMEQZ TIL James Doohan, Star Trek’s Scotty, was shot 6 times during D-Day and had his middle finger amputated. He went on to conceal it on screen throughout his acting career.
Bg4jy TIL there are approximately only 6,674 cheetahs in the wild today and only 5% of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood. The key factors of their decline are habitat loss, exotic pet industry, poaching for their skin, and conflicts with farmers. Currently, they exist only 10% of their historic range.
x5x0 TIL that an analysis of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers found that around 50 percent of them are probably fake. The criteria for determining if an account was fake included whether it was used to tweet phrases such as “diet,” “make money” and “work from home.”