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

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PYjVn TIL of the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, a group of 19th century lumberjacks who suffered a rare disorder. They had an exaggerated startle reflex and would immediately obey any sudden command and repeat the words. Modern studies have concluded it was a psychological condition rather than a tic.
gD1L TIL an illegally imported DVD of Titanic helped North Korean defector Yeonmi Park realize the oppressive nature of the North Korean government and gave her “a taste of freedom”
kJJB7 TIL In the sexual embrace, called amplexus, the male toad clasps the female from behind. The pair swims about as the female, swollen with eggs, selects a site for depositing them. As several thousand eggs are expelled from the female's body in jelly-like strings, the male fertilizes them with sperm
NYAE TIL 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer. Several frosts and snow across New England destroyed crops and led to starvation.
rNkjd TIL That after Martin Luther King Jr's death, his speech, "I Have a Dream," was issued as a single under "Gordy Records," this single managed to peak at 88 on the Billboard Hot 100.