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TIL the Walmart heirs are funding an anti-solar campaign.

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WknG4 TIL that George Newhall and Tom Yohe, co-creators of the "School House Rock" series of educational short songs, produced a similar series for NBC in 1978 called "The Metric Marvels" to teach kids about the metric system in support of the US' short-lived transition to metric.
4dKJ TIL that exposure to semen promotes feelings of bonding between jizzer and jizzipient
PY1eJ TIL J.K Rowling invented Quidditch while in a pub.
R7646 TIL about Germany Schaefer, who played major-league baseball from 1901 to 1918. He liked to steal first base after reaching second to confuse the pitcher. After his retirement, a rule was passed that any player who ran the bases in the wrong direction would be called out.
8ykV TIL Sean Penn once tied Madonna to a chair and beat her. After nine hours she escaped and made it to a police station.