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TIL: After Lamb Chop’s Play-Along host Shari Lewis’ passing, her daughter began to perform with Lamb Chop to keep her character alive.

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ADmaa TIL that there is an 8th continent submerged almost entirely under water called Zealandia by New Zealand.
9Yg96 TIL the tubular cavity of a chimney is called a flue and was JK Rowling's inspiration for naming Floo Power (despite her not knowing exactly what it referred to)
kJn1W TIL There is a spot in the retina where the nerves carrying all the information run out, or the blind spot. A King of France amused himself during boring sessions with courtiers by “cutting off their heads” by looking at one and watching another’s head disappear
KOP9 TIL that the Romans had the same goddess for their sewage system as for protecting sexual intercourse in marriage
7VXp TIL Karla Homolka tortured and raped three children with her husband, and likely killed them, but was only convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years… Despite there being videos of her committing the rape and torture. She was released in 2005 and now has three children.