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TIL the Michelin Man has a name, and it's Bibendum

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WklgN TIL that in 2015, the city of Toronto took too long to pick a dead raccoon off the sidewalk so Torontoans made a memorial to it.
4XPjb TIL That Jeff Lew, the creator of Killer Bean Forever worked on The Matrix Reloaded
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