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TIL Asbestos was used as fake snow in early Hollywood in films such as, “The Wizard of Oz”

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Yp7QP TIL that the Nintendo character Kirby was named after John Kirby, the legal counsel for Nintendo who helped them win their lawsuit with Universal Studios in 1982. John Kirby was gifted a sailboat Christened the “Donkey Kong” and given exclusive rights to name any boat he owned “Donkey Kong.”
GYbJQ TIL an Ohio teen suffocated after getting stuck under a seat in his minivan. He’d managed to call 911 using voice command, the police had come to his location, looked in the van but didn’t see him, so they drove off
LwVv TIL-55% of the world population has brown eyes, 5-8% has hazel eyes, 8% has blue eyes, 2% has green eyes, and small percentages have silver or amber eyes. Eye color is unique just like fingerprints.
mX7v TIL over 11% of all Americans are infected with parasitic Pinworms, which make your ass itch at night when they come crawling out of your anus to lay their eggs. This makes you scratch your ass and helps these sticky eggs spread, often to your own breakfast, thereby repeating the cycle.
P10PE TIL roughly 115 million years ago in the time of dinosaurs, a little 5cm mushroom from Gondwana fell in a river, journeyed to a highly saline lagoon, sank down, down, thru the water. Was covered in layer upon layer of fine sediment. Becoming Gondwanagaricites magnificus, the oldest fossil mushroom