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TIL that 53% of infants born in America are on food stamps

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x66po TIL that because the number eight in Cantonese means "fortune", or "to prosper", the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing began on 8/8/08 at 8 minutes and 8 seconds past 8 pm local time (UTC+08).
4Xvk5 TIL in the 1970s, physicists used a diapered ferret to assist them in cleaning the inside of a particle accelerator. The ferret, named Felicia, made dozens of runs before retiring as a pet on a mink farm.
E1nGo TIL Genghis Khan had 500 wives
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abGM TIL Shirley Temple wasn’t told of her friend and fellow actress Dorothy Dell’s death until moments before filming a crying scene