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TIL that the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man was created for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta

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4Jbw TIL that the average American woman of today weighs the same as the average American man of the 1960s
BrlnD TIL Octopuses are immune to the stings of various types of jellyfish. They know this and will often rip off the stings of man-o-war (species closely related to jellyfish) and use them as whips to defend themselves from larger predators.
LQr7r TIL The Netherlands "declared war" on the Isles of Scilly in 1651. A peace treaty was signed in 1986 after a historian informed the Dutch Embassy in London that the war was still technically ongoing. It lasted 335 years and not a single shot was fired.
VBQL0 TIL Serge Voronoff was a surgeon who gained fame for his practice of xenotransplantation of monkey testicle tissues onto the testicles of men as anti-aging therapy while working in France in the 1920s and 1930s.
ODKY TIL that Queen (the band) is the only group that has had all of its members compose multiple #1 hits, so in addition to the band being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, all four members have been individually inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.