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TIL Liza Minnelli is Judy Garland's daughter

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EjBw TIL that Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004. Barbie hooked up with a guy named Blaine for a couple of years, then got back with Ken in 2006.
KQXw TIL- that ‘noise’ you hear when you yawn or close your eyes tightly is produced by the Tensor Tympani muscle; only a small percentage of people can vibrate it at will
6E8gQ TIL: In the movie Gremlins (1984) monkeys were supposed to provide the special effects. The test monkey panicked when the mask was put on him and he ran around the editing room screaming and pooping everywhere.
Rp57 TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript written by Archimedes that laid out the heart of Calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.
e0boD TIL of the Hibakusha, survivors of the WWII atomic bombings. As of 2014, 1,000 (including many born in the U.S.) live in the United States and are supported by the Japanese government, but largely ignored by the American government