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TIL the most commonly used name for a character in a movie is "Jack"

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jQrR TIL of Beat ‘Em & Eat 'Em, a game for the Atari 2600, where the goal is to control two nude women on the street who must catch semen in their mouths that comes from a masturbating man on a rooftop.
X0xp6 TIL that TAR syndrome is a rare congenital disease in which babies are born without the radius bone in both forearms and also have very low levels of platelets, sometimes leading to life-threatening bleeding
R54P4 TIL in 2010, the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission ate nothing but potatoes for two months. He lost 21 pounds, his cholesterol went down 67 points, his blood sugar lowered and the blood chemistry—the iron, the calcium, the protein—either stayed the same or got better.
Jr1V TIL in 1998, a Georgia high school student was suspended from school after wearing a Pepsi t-shirt on Coke Day. Upon hearing the news, a Pepsi spokesperson said, “Without knowing all the details, it sounds like (he’s) obviously a trendsetter with impeccable taste in clothes.”
a8XO9 TIL that peanuts aren't actually nuts, they're beans (legumes). Wild.