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TIL Patti Mayonnaise got her last name because her voice actor, Connie Shulman, was a Kraft mayonnaise spokesperson.

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16GmP TIL: The Addam’s Family franchise is based off a 1930s New Yorker cartoon.

mxokp TIL An Indian village plants 111 trees every time a girl is born.

l70oG TIL of a mother named Kathleen Folbigg, who was imprisoned for 2 decades for murdering her 4 children. Later, she would be pardoned by the Governor after it was discovered that the deaths were instead due to an extremely rare genetic condition.

a8AG0 TIL that well into the 18th century, many mapmakers held the persistent belief that California was an island. This eventually prompted in 1747 the following royal decree from King Ferdinand VI of Spain: “California is not an island.”

MpK8 Today I learned that there is a self mummification practice, in which extreme ascetics commit suicide over ten years with the goal of turning their own body into a mummy as a sign of spiritual enlightenment.