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TIL Trey Parker & Matt Stone were inspired to make ‘The Book of Mormon’ after seeing the Broadway musical 'Avenue Q’. Robert Lopez, creator of 'Avenue Q’, was inspired to make it after seeing Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s movie 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut’

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X8Dr TIL Eric Carle, the American-born illustrator and writer of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, moved to Germany as a kid in the 1930s, and was conscripted to dig trenches for the German army when he was 15 years old. Now 87 years old, he is one of the youngest surviving WWII veterans.
5V0mR TIL that bananas emit antimatter.
oaBo TIL Scientists conected a paralyzed woman’s brain to basic tablet so she could google about gardening
0M8y TIL Mark Twain Was Born and Died in the Same Years That Halley’s Comet Flew By the Earth
8DyK TIL of Nzinga, a 17th century queen in Angola who had a harem of men that had to fight to be with her and were put to death after a night of pleasure