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TIL that in the late 90s there was a live action Wallace and Gromit that was only aired once and is utterly terrifying

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9YJnp TIL for decades, cartographers have made secret illustrations on Switzerland’s official topographical maps such as a spider, a naked woman, and a marmot, eluding the Swiss Federal Office of Topography for years before removal. The naked woman reclined for nearly 60 yrs in the municipality of Egg.
ADeWl TIL many brands of "ice cream" (such as Breyer's and Dreyer's) sold in the US is technically NOT ice cream, but is labeled as a "frozen dairy dessert" as they do not contain an adequate amount of milk fat (10%) to actually be considered true "Ice Cream"
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OZ5X TIL that an ancient Greek philosopher called Crysippus died of laughter while watching a drunk Mule try to eat from a fig tree
GAP6E TIL each week, Katz's Delicatessen serves 15,000 lb of pastrami, 8,000 lb of corned beef, 2,000 lb of salami and 4,000 hot dogs