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TIL that in Lego, Lord Voldemort minifigure is one of the few that has a nose

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pkn4 TIL of Paul Powell, an Illinois politician who was found dead in his hotel sweet residence in Springfield, IL with $800,000 in cash, 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios, and 2 cases of creamed corn.
P1dvL TIL coffee was all the rage in London in the 17th and 18th century until a fungus destroyed coffee plantations and forced the switch to tea in Sri Lanka
VMKj0 TIL Caitlyn Jenner was a race car driver.
lVJB TIL “jaywalking” became a crime in the US thanks in part to campaigns by the automotive industry. In the wake of increased pedestrian deaths, they wanted to shift the blame for road accidents from automobile drivers to pedestrians.
QN7Xa TIL 65% of Staten Island voted to secede from the rest of New York City in 1993, only to have their efforts blocked by the State Assembly