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TIL Fraggles are just the ‘evolutive form’ of doozers that stop working.

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lxP5 TIL A former Israeli nuclear technician revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and abducted by Israeli intelligence agents.
e0J4D TIL 12-year-old Ralph (Peter Billingsley) from 'A Christmas Story' was given real chewing tobacco on set and got sick.
9r6 TIL the subspecies of Elephant used by Hannibal in his invasion of Italy are extinct
OoGZY TIL the term music 'album' comes from the albums containing sets of 10-minute records sold prior to the invention of 40-minute LPs
br9Z TIL that anyone in the US, UK or Canada can get their entire genome sequenced for free