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TIL Jerry Springer was born in a London subway station, which was being used as a bomb shelter in WWII

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l7JYa TIL The Outerbridge Crossing, the bridge connecting Staten Island, NYC with New Jersey, is named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
47gR TIL: The 10th tallest pyramid in the world is a Bass Pro Shop in Memphis Tennessee
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs
70r7 TIL:Anne Parrish, whilst browsing bookshops in Paris, came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband. He opened it and found the inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.” It was Anne’s very own book.
b9g00 TIL that the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory were originally called Whipple-Scrumpets.