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TIL TIL Steve McQueen was demoted to private seven times by the Marines; he then saved the lives of other Marines by pulling them from a sinking tank, after which he was assigned to guard the presidential yacht of US President Harry Truman

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nY7o TIL that the deliveryman who picked up Martin’s chair in the final episode of Frasier (played by Cleto Augusto) was the same deliveryman who had dropped it off in the pilot.
W76Ld TIL it took world population over 2 million years to reach 1 billion, but only 207 more to grow to 7 billion.
va1L TIL “kummerspeck” is a German word that means excess weight gained through emotional overeating and literally translates to “grief bacon”.
rRvZ0 TIL the Beryozka or Berezka Dance Ensemble is a troupe of female dancers in Russia, wearing long gowns and move in very small steps on very low half-toe with the body held in a certain corresponding position, so the dancers appear as floating or moving on wheels.
oAyr TIL you can make $13,000 a year by selling your poop