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TIL that Cookie Monster has a British cousin named Biscuit Monster

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awdXb Today I learned there used to be a Louis Tussaud’s wax museum in Britain ,whose models so seldom resembled the people they were meant to represent, it developed a cult following and sold in 2014
8aB7P TIL The kid from the Anti Smoking ad I remember seeing on TV after school was Rob McElhenney (Mac from Always Sunny).
b9Av0 TIL that US food manufacturers used cans that were soldered with lead until 1991.
O9b4 TIL that Van Gogh most likely didn’t commit suicide. He was probably shot by two young boys who were playing with their father’s gun, which misfired; he protected them by saying he shot himself.
xVaNw TIL the Nazis had an annual charity drive called Winterhilfswerk. It was not uncommon for those who forgot or donated to little to lose their jobs, be prosecuted, or be victims of mob violence. Large donations were a way to establish oneself as a loyal supporter of the Nazi Party without joining it.