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TIL that a group of frogs is called an ‘army’

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JYQZ8 TIL that boxer Jimmy Doyle, who died fighting Sugar Ray Robinson for the Welterweight title in 1947, challenged Robinson to the fight in order to buy his mother a house. After Doyle's death, Robinson gave the earnings from his next four fights to Doyle's mother so she could buy that house.
4k8xw TIL that Kuwait has no rivers or lakes in the entire country and almost completely relies on desalination for drinking water. There are currently more than six desalination plants in operation, and Kuwait was the first country in the world to use desalination to for large-scale domestic use.
X0PLR TIL Coca-Cola in the US is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, not sugar. I guess that accounts for most of the difference in taste between American and British (and other) Coke.
xBYk TIL in response to the Parents Television Council voting various episodes of Family Guy as the “Worst TV Show of the Week”, creator Seth MacFarlane responded by saying “They can all suck my dick as far as I’m concerned.”
x6XP0 TIL Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony without winning any of them.