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TIL Mavis Beacon was a fictional character played by Renée L’espérance.

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n1NY TIL Stranger Things was allegedly based on Project Montauk, a supposed secret government program involving the kidnapping of children for use in mind control experiments.
N7ZyJ TIL of the 250 plutonium-powered pacemakers Medtronic manufactured, 22 were still in service more than 25 years later, a feat that no battery-powered pacemaker could achieve
x6AO7 TIL That Napoleon's Penis was once on display in New York City's Museum of French Art in 1927. It was described in quote to look like a, "piece of leather or shriveled eel," and a, "maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace."
naW7 TIL There’s a red, white and blue buoy marking the spot that Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry (inspiring him to write the Star Spangled Banner) in the Patapsco River. Picture in comments.
OGkO1 TIL about the game, where you lose if you think about 'the game' and you must announce you lost the game