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TIL Motorboat Racing Has an International Governing Body

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Zp0JG TIL that in the original Addams Family TV Show, Gomez is the nephew of Uncle Fester. They were rewritten as brothers for the movies in the 1990s.
BrQAe TIL Mark Twain was born two weeks after Halley's Comet's closest approach in 1835. In 1909 he said he must also go out with it. His prediction was accurate as he died 1 day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.
8aQe4 TIL Dick Tuck, a political consultant and prankster, pulled many pranks on Richard Nixon. One included renting a huge auditorium for Nixon to speak but inviting only a few guests. He also hired a pregnant black woman to walk around in a white neighborhood with a sign reading: “Nixon’s the one!”
7dMO TIL religious belief in America has hit an all time low. Prayer rates have decreased fivefold since the early 1980s and many Americans think the bible is is an “ancient book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by men”
4X1vo TIL bee venom could cure HIV.