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TIL that fathers day varies very much from country to country

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YoVZ TIL that a Texas school district is so small that one person “has been the superintendent, the principal, the third-to-sixth-grade teacher, the ESL instructor, the special-ed teacher, the repairman, the contractor”. Divine, Texas (about 20 students)’s school bus is a used white limousine.
BrwJD TIL Siamese cats have their coloration due to the enzyme tyrosinase being mutated to be ineffective at body temperature but active in the tails feet ears and face where it’s cooler and can produce the dark pigment.
woEdM TIL about a war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Republic of Seven Netherlands where the only casualty was a soup kettle.
gMywL TIL that an island in the middle of Loch Lomond in Scotland is home to roughly 60 wallabies
78YvX TIL That the stunt of Jerry Lawler slapping Andy Kaufman on David Letterman was not revealed as a hoax until years later.