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TIL Doug Funnie from Nickelodeon’s ‘Doug’ was originally a character in Florida grapefruit juice commercials.

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W85B TIL in 1996 a Canadian mining company announced a massive gold find, going from a penny stock to $280 and raising $6 billion in investment. It was found the land was worthless and the lead geologist had been shaving gold off his wedding ring and adding it to drill core samples.
Yp9WB TIL: That Hitler was lazy and incompetent and that his government was a clown show
wk0M TIL Cannabis is a stimulant, depressant, and a hallucinogen all in one.
gb9A TIL the US navy simulated a naval battle against the Iranian navy and lost… Badly.
eA0D TIL that one out of every 4 million lobsters is born with a rare genetic defect that turns the lobster blue.