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TIL in 1993, the Mickey Mouse Club featured a young Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Ryan Gosling.

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GAXl7 TIL: The name of the guy who doomed the world is Lee Raymond.
M5pV TIL A tradition of High Wycombe, UK, involves its Mayor being weighed annually in public on a specially erected scale, and their weight compared with the previous year. If it has increased, it means they have been indulging in too much good living at taxpayers’ expense, and the crowd jeers and boos
N7lKJ TIL In France, you can’t keep home the ashes of your beloved ones. If you try to keep the ashes or scatter them anywhere except in designated areas, you are liable to a €15,000 fine.
XEbbr TIL: The "air" puffing-up most potato chips bags is actually not air. It's nitrogen. Chemical reactions with regular air would hurt the taste. Also, typical snacks bags are a high-tech sandwich of polypropylene, a possible thin coating of aluminum, and polyethylene (grocery-bag plastic).
GAwXN TIL A Blue Whale Eats 1 million calories on average daily