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TIL loofah sponges come from a gourd and not the ocean.

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9Y8VM TIL that in 1857 John Nicholson burst into an officers’ dinner and said: “I am sorry, gentlemen, to have kept you waiting for your dinner, but I have been hanging your cooks." Nicholson had found out the cooks had poisoned the soup and so he had killed them all.
n9E7 TIL the President of the University of Oregon turned down having “The Graduate” filmed at the school in 1967. Not wanting to make the same mistake again, he allowed another movie to be filmed there around a decade later. That movie was “Animal House”.
vDRL TIL there is a language called Boontling spoken only in the small Northern California town of Boonville. It is a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish, Pomo Indian and Spanish.
QkMX TIL that Boston has fewer people today than it did in 1910.
0dJ4R TIL Bob Barker had a cameo in the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful in which he told a man to help control the pet population by having his pet spayed or neutered, then beat him up and kicked him down a hill after the man called Bob wacko.