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TIL there is an underground vault containing every Lego set ever

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OGey1 TIL that although the term "First Lady" is commonly attributed to 12th President Zachary Taylor, the term was actually first used in an 1838 newspaper article about Martha Washington.
NXQZb TIL: aside from being an actor and an activist, Marlon Brando was also an inventor with 4 patents to his name. One of them were pool shoes that that would increase friction as you walk on the bottom of the pool to give you a better workout, and another invention being a single-tuning conga drum.
epgAJ TIL that in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the sound effect of the opening of the ark was created by dragging a toilet lid over some paving.
N79le TIL a study of attitudes toward age gap relationships found that they were frowned on, regardless of whether the man or the woman was older, but it was only when the man was older that the relationship was considered unequal.
loaQA TIL of Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja, a man who grew up in the wild amongst wolves from an early age until 19 years old. In 2018 he expressed he was disappointed with humanity and wished to return to the wild