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TIL Miss Piggy has never appeared in an episode of Sesame Street

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VBwR4 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born.
gMrr4 TIL that William Henry Harrison only spent a month in office.
8GpV TIL a barber took on 40 cops and survived, despite being shot in the head and a staircase falling on him. It was broadcasted live.
X0P TIL that the estimated costs for the 2012 political campaigns (6 or 7 billion) is almost 3 times the cost of sending the Rover Curiosity to Mars (2.5 billion)
PYrRE TIL there is a sound frequency that is said to induce a feeling of fear even when it is inaudible.