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TIL that Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys is deaf in one ear, due to getting hit in the side of head with a lead pipe when he was a child.

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8ONX TIL that in 1787 a large shark was caught in the Thames river, and when the contents of its stomach was examined it included a watch, silver chain and seal that had belong to a British sailor who had been lost at sea, but was originally from Shoreditch.
ZJDB TIL when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18, he found out that all his money ($68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued that that every dollar a child makes before the age of 21 belongs to his parents. Coogan’s law was then passed to protect child actors.
woG8M TIL that the Romans were among the first to introduce a standardized system of measuring time through hours. But they didn't have a fixed hour duration throughout the entire year. Instead, they adjusted the length of an hour based on the length of daylight. A winter hr was shorter than a summer hr.
7op TIL there is a Lego secret vault that holds nearly every lego set ever produced!
1akOW TIL the earliest identified joke is an ancient Sumerian proverb dated to 1900 BC and contains toilet humor: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap"