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TIL there are more episodes of Lassie (571) than the Simpsons (552 as of season 25).

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gZx4 TIL - that an explorer and adventurer went missing in the Amazon in 1925 searching for El Dorado. Since then, around 100 people have died trying to find him, and as recently as 1996 an expedition to find his remains only got out after paying a ransom to their Kalapalo captors.
9gXD TIL that the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the legislation to form the Secret Service was on his desk.
xV8ao TIL Our nose and our ears get bigger with age, but not because they are growing - because of gravity and the breakdown of collagen
a86w9 TIL Chicken Katsu was invented in the late 1800s by a Tokyo restaurant that wanted to offer a European-style meat cutlet to British businessmen
6eyX TIL That there are nerves at the end of your rectum that distinguish between gas and feces. Sometimes these nerve endings become confused, hence, a shart.