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TIL Robert Lopez, co-writer of Let It Go from Frozen, co-created and co-wrote Avenue Q and The Book Of Mormon, guest wrote a South Park episode, wrote four songs for the Scrubs episode My Musical, and is one of 12 people to have ever won EGOT: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.

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7rMLL TIL Keurig K-Cups are non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, and generate a ton of plastic waste. They are so environmentally unfriendly that its own inventor has said: “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”
D1ev TIL before syphilis had a name, it had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany; the “Italian disease” in France; the “Spanish disease” in the Netherlands; the “Polish disease” in Russia; the “Christian disease” in Turkey; and the “British Disease” in Tahiti.
v1NJ7 TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.
Z8JZv TIL, that after executing an ambassador sent from Genghis Khan to negotiate, Muhammad II of Khwarzem was executed bt Genghis Khan by pouring moulten silver into his eyes and ears after the Khan invaded and destroyed the entire Khwarazmian Empire.
VBJDQ TIL sexsomnia is a sleep disorder where people engage in sexual acts such as masturbating or initiating sex with others while asleep. They may make sexual noises or open their eyes, but they are completely unaware of their behavior once they wake up.