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TIL that a literary prank 1963 convinced germany that Hansel and Gretel were real.

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WKLd TIL of Lazzaro Spallanzani, who dressed male frogs in tight pants so that their sperm couldn’t escape into female frogs. He proved that the creation of new life required both the sperm and the egg.
Zlkp TIL Crayola’s most senior crayon moulder who, after 37 years of service and approximately 1.4 billion crayons produced, revealed he was colorblind
69Vjw TIL that the longest possible word in English has 189,819 letters and takes over 3 hours to pronounce.
E1AeW TIL that there are 153 million orphaned children in the world. This number slightly falls below Russia's population statistics and above Mexico's. Therefore, it would be safe to say that if a country was to be set aside for orphans, it would rank the 9th most populated.
wR11 TIL Philadelphia has a section of railway, home to a heroin epidemic so bad, that even the police have trouble going there due to the horrible conditions.