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TIL in Germany there exists the Waldkindergarten: preschools held entirely outdoors in a forest, regardless of weather conditions

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woPg6 TIL that both Johnny 5 from Short Circuit and Frank the Pug from Men In Black were both voiced by the same person, voice actor and pupeteer Tim Blaney.
R5NV9 TIL that Kevin Spacey has had over 15 people accuse him of sexual misconduct, and 3 of those people died before they could testify or advance their case against him, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened three times
JyAl TIL tea’s consumption rate is higher than all other other manufactured drinks combined.
x65X5 TIL Green Day bassist Mike Prichard adopted the stage name Mike Dirnt as "Dirnt" was originally a nickname that his friends from grade school gave him, as he constantly played "air bass/guitar" and made a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings.
KOoa9 TIL, numbers that are the product of two prime numbers (e.g. 4, 6, 9, 10, etc.) are called semiprimes, and sometimes they can be the squares of prime numbers. Semiprime numbers have no composite numbers as factors other than themselves, which is another reason why they are called semiprimes.