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TIL that Jerri Blank's character in Strangers with Candy was based off of Florrie Fisher, a former addict and prostitute turned motivational speaker who was a cult icon for her outlandish stories shared with high school students in the 1960s and 70s.

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5Yr9R TIL In 2012, the NOAA was forced to publish that Mermaids weren’t real. This was due to a Sci-Fi program on Animal Planet claiming that a Mermaid’s body had been found on a beach. Some believed it and contacted the NOAA, making them state: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found,".
W7gb9 TIL In 2018, a Killer whale named Tahlequah, known to researchers as J35, grieved over her dead calf by carrying it across the ocean for 17 days and over 1,000 miles, refusing to let it sink.
wA6 TIL: There are Cat Cafés in Japan and Taiwan where people can pay hourly to play with cats and have drinks!
Eg1Ep TIL the term “Easter Egg” was coined in 1979 by an Atari software developer to describe a hidden message in a video game.
VNOp TIL that, despite most ALS sufferers dying within 2-5 years of their diagnosis, Professor Stephen Hawkings has lived with it for over 50 years, more than 10 times the average.