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TIL that fingernails grow 3 times faster than toenails
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TIL that Larry Swearingen is on death row in Texas despite substantial evidence that he was in jail on traffic charges at the time of the crime.
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TIL the name of the Syrian hamster roughly translates to “mister saddlebags” in the local Arabic dialect due to the amount of storage space in their cheek pouches.
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TIL The English word “cowboy” is a rough translation of the Spanish word vaquero, one who manages cattle from horseback
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TIL that while filming ”The Wire”, Andre Royo, who played Bubbles, a drug addict, was approached by a Baltimore resident who handed him a package of heroin and said he looked like he needed a fix. Royo calls this his "street Oscar."
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TIL that the normally serious and reserved Duke of Wellington, began an on the spot flamenco dance, when he heard that Napoleon had abdicated.