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TIL that a woman who disappeared in 1937 was found floating in a lake 3 years later, and her body had turned into soap.

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j7Jj TIL Minnie Riperton wrote the song, “Lovin’ You (is easy ‘cause you’re beautiful)” for her baby daughter…who grew up to be SNL cast member, Maya Rudolph
x6XpB TIL that football (soccer) pitches, even at the highest level of competition, are not standard in size
wLJwP TIL that although Nolan Ryan holds 51 Major League Baseball records including most no-hitters thrown, most strikeouts, and the lowest batting average allowed over a career, he never won the Cy Young Award.
gLWb TIL Around 1/3 of American teenagers have texted full nudes of themselves and could potentially be charged with the creation and distribution of child pornography.
Q99p TIL while directing Jurassic Park, when Spielberg saw CGI of T. rex, he said to stop motion animator Phil Tippett , “You’re out of a job,” to which Tippett replied, “Don’t you mean extinct?”. Spielberg later incorporated this dialogue into the movie