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TIL Lionel Jeffries who played the grandpa in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was only one year older than Dick Van Dyke

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QJQA9 TIL of Arthur Boycott, the man with the longest overdue library book in history. He checked it out in the 1890s and it wasn’t returned until nearly 120 years later in 2016, by his granddaughter
neEOP TIL there is a no-kill way of producing caviar, allowing to massage eggs out of the pregnant sturgeon, and which could make caviar 70% cheaper if produced at scale
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neolG TIL about the alive and well easter tradition in slovakia for men to get day drunk, throw buckets of water on women, and spank them with willow whips.
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