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TIL Jeff Bridges’ grandchildren call him “DudePa”

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QJeQa TIL that "Weird Al" Yankovic released "Polkamon", a song that featured briefly during the credits of "Pokémon: The Movie 2000".
4Ayw TIL that a majority of Indian households boil their milk. A survey found that 59 percent of Indian mothers believe boiling increases milk’s nutritional value; in fact, boiling destroys essential vitamins, proteins, and amino acids.
v1Elj TIL: There is a book called "Shadows from the Walls of Death", a book that's not only extremely rare, but also very lethal due to its arsenic content.
ANl4w TIL about “exclusion water” or the process of adding an extra hydrogen molecule to your water in order to “improve your life”. Snake oil never changes.
9oYX TIL the phrase “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” was originally meant to describe an absurdly impossible action. The phrase is an adynation, a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility.