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TIL Animal Planet made a fake documentary about the existence of mermaids… twice!

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e09KD TIL that Arthur C. Clarke (served RAF there), Simon Pegg (studied there), Gordon Ramsay (moved there at age 9), and of course William Shakespeare (lived there) all were connected with the small locus of Stradford-Upon-Avon in England.
vlD8 TIL the last recorded words to come from inside the Challenger Space Shuttle before it exploded were, “Uh oh.”
8nZ TIL Space Invaders was so popular in Japan it caused a national coin shortage
1RvW TIL ‘uncopywritable’ is the longest word in the English language that doesn’t repeat a letter.
kOEgg TIL Cards Against Humanity was initially named 'Cardenfreude', a pun on 'Schadenfreude', which is the experience of joy that comes from the humiliation of someone else.