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TIL Rob Zombie was a production assistant on PeeWee’s Playhouse…

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VMQR4 TIL that the US dollar is worth HALF as much as it was when the average millennial was born.
Y4EZ TIL the possible origin of the phrase “knock on wood” comes from Germanic folklore, “wherein dryads are thought to live in trees, and can be invoked for protection.”
oBymE TIL the Bikini swimsuit was introduced by Louis Réard four days after the first nuclear device was detonated over the Bikini Atoll. Réard hoped that his swimsuit's revealing style would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar to the social reaction the nuclear explosion.
WKB TIL Reddit is owned by Advance Publications which as of 2011, was ranked the 49th largest private company in the United States according to Forbes.
eOKE TIL that many Jewish families arrested during the Holocaust have been commemorated with gold bricks in the streets memorializing where lived. As of August 20, 2014, there have been laid over 48,000 Stolpersteine in 18 countries in Europe, making the project the world’s largest memorial.