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TIL in the original opening sequence of “The Simpsons”, Maggie is rung up at a price of $847.63, which represented the monthly cost of raising a child at the time.

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R5gY6 TIL people with ALS or Lou Gehrig disease are disproportionately nice and pleasant, in addition to slowly losing all motor function, with makes doctors think it may also affect the frontal lobe.
dJYK TIL In the 1930’s, horse jockey Ralph Neves was thrown from his horse during a race, declared dead and taken to the morgue. Hours later, he woke up in the morgue, caught a cab back to the racetrack and proceeded to win the next race, along with a $500 gold watch donated by Bing Crosby.
D1nPv TIL That certain species of hawk in Australia have been known to purposely spread wildfires beyond firebreaks in order to force prey out into the open
l7KRa TIL about Orotidine 5'-phosphate decarboxylase, an enzyme known for its extreme efficiency, it accelerates a certain reaction that would take normally 78 million years to 18 milliseconds.
Op6e TIL Nancy Astor was the first female MP in the UK, and is known for her “poison tea” exchange with Churchill, but had some lesser known retorts of her own including telling Churchill-who asked how he could possibly appear in disguise at a masquerade-“Why don’t you come sober?”