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TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening revealed that the town of Springfield, Oregon was the inspiration for the show's setting.

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Q5Je TIL Beluga Whales have been known to mimic human speech, even tricking a group of divers by issuing an “out of the water” order.
0bb1 TIL At the height of apartheid in South Africa the most popular television show among whites was The Cosby Show. During the apartheid government’s State of Emergency in the mid 1980s when it was illegal to publish photos of Mandela, Bill Cosby became the most recognizable black man in South Africa
BEpK TILed that there is a geocache on the International Space Station.
PYn9V TIL In 1942, the Nazis cracked the algorithm for the serial numbers and rag content of British Pound notes. Using prisoners with counterfeiting skills, near perfect bills were produced with the plan to scatter them over England by air to induce hyperinflation and collapse the economy.
5V1nB TIL that more than 1,600 people are recorded to have died from falling off the Great Pyramids of Giza in the last 200 years