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TIL Frank Zappa made a guest appearance on an early episode of Ren & Stimpy playing The Pope

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nWoZP TIL that the Mr Bean episode Do-It Yourself Mr Bean, features him decapitating a picture of Princess Diana. This scene was deleted, after Diana’s death in a car crash.
agxN TIL Pakistan is an acronym: Punjab, Afghan and Kashmir
4k4ka TIL that the Alaska oil pipeline (and other pipelines) have naturally occurring magnetic fields. Due to its length, location near the north pole, and running mostly north-south, the earths magnetic field induces a charge in the pipeline that can be measured.
awmwJ TIL the electric car was invented before the internal combustion engined car.
Z8kZD TIL in 1824, Thomas Jefferson introduced legislature for the United States to end slavery by purchasing all slave children, train them for various skills and crafts, and then send them to the Dominican Republic.