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TIL that RuPaul and Cory Booker are cousins
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TIL that the world's oldest roller coaster "Leap The Dips" built in 1902 is the only remaining side-friction roller coaster in North America
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TIL the Choose Your Own Adventure books were invented by a single father and a lawyer named Edward Packard. He came up with the idea while telling bedtime stories to his kids
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TIL Bed bugs were all but eradicated in the developed world in the 1950s but had a resurgence in the 1990s due to factors including increased international travel, lack of public awareness
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TIL that the iconic 1962 crossover sequel 'King Kong vs Godzilla' was originally pitched as a showdown between King Kong and Frankenstein's Monster (briefly renamed "the Ginko" and then "Prometheus" in the mistaken belief that Universal owned the rights to the name "Frankenstein")
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TIL it took ~400,000 years following the Big Bang for the Universe to cool down enough to allow atoms to form