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TIL “Free the Nipple” movement was founded by a man who believes we descended from aliens and started his own cult.

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j6RXp TIL the Pillsbury Doughboy has a family including his wife, Poppie Fresh, their kids, Popper and Bun-Bun, Flapjack, the family dog, and Biscuit, the cat. Pillsbury sold them as dolls and various playsets in the 1970s
nMpb TIL A man named Ota Benga was held in a zoo in 1906, 40 years after the end of slavery in the U.S. He was in a cage with an Orangutan. Atendance at the zoo doubled over the time he was there, and 40,000 people visited the zoo in a single day.
PYNMG Today I learned the plural of ‘beef’ is ‘beeves’
7rnX TIL Pope John Paul II entered and prayed in a mosque, and even kissed the Qur'an, in an effort to improve religious relations with Islam.
W6lX TIL that both the United Kingdom and Canada have banned the Westboro Baptist Church from entering their countries.