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TIL The Penguins of Madagascar TV Show has a Primetime Emmy Award

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KOJd6 TIL that if you leave lime juice on your hands on a sunny day, your skin can get second degree burns and be discolored for YEARS. It's called "margarita dermatitis" because people often get it while making margaritas outside!
GRGJ TIL the first chairman of the 9/11 Commission was Henry Kissinger. One of the family members of the victims of 9/11 asked Kissinger if he “had any clients by the name of bin Laden.” Kissinger resigned soon after that.
xVAJD TIL In 2014, the beard of Tutankhamun's golden mask fell off during a cleaning process in the Egyptian Museum. The workers used epoxy glue to reattach the beard, but that was not the professional method. This led to a permanent damage to the mask. They were prosecuted for this in 2016.
RYBQ TIL in 2004, Dave Matthews Band dumped 800lbs of human waste from their tour bus onto a group of tourists in Chicago
LOMm TIL that one of America’s most well known British TV actors (John Hillerman, Higgins, of Magnum PI fame) isn’t British at all, but is a native Texan, who learned his accent from performances of Laurence Olivier.