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TIL In a week in 1994, Tim Allen simultaneously had the #1 show (Home Improvement), #1 movie (The Santa Clause) and #1 book (Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man).

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GYRyN TIL that there is an Indian language spoken by 2 million people but can be written by only 100 people.
yQjBJ TIL that the city of Enterprise, Alabama has a monument dedicated to the boll weevil as thanks for the weevils destroying their cotton crops, which forced them to diversify their agricultural sector and led to greater prosperity.
OWng TIL: Wolves being reintroduced into Yellowstone in 1995 caused regrowth of many populations and even saved the rivers from erosion .
R7bAw TIL that filmmaker James Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible on March 26, 2012. He is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever.
LLnv TIL In German there is a word for when cables under the desk tangle and create a mess: Kabelsalat (Cable Salad)