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TIL Zack Galifianakis bought an apartment for a homeless woman across the street from the laundromat she lived in. The story was made into a documentary movie

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YrdP TIL “Mary” of Mary Had A Little Lamb was an 83-year-old teacher named Mary F. Sawyer, who brought her pet lamb to the school she taught at around the time of the Battle of Waterloo
4XrZw TIL Anne Frank hid some dirty jokes in her diary. One of them reads: "Do you know why the German Wehrmacht girls are in the Netherlands? As mattresses for the soldiers."
yQMop TIL the tale generally considered to be the first detective story is Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," in 1841. The story describes the extraordinary analytical power used by Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin to solve a series of murders in Paris.
neYVP TIL about Lepersonnite, an extremely rare rare earth mineral only found in Shinkolobwe deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the only mineral in which the chemical element Gadolinium, otherwise too reactive to exist, is found in nature. 400 tonnes of Gadolinium are produced yearly.
awDQJ TIL that on their 2000 album 'Hooray for Boobies', the Bloodhound Gang included a track called "The Ten Coolest Things About New Jersey". The song is just ten seconds of silence.