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TIL: Rowdy Roddy Piper was a member of COBRA, enemy of GI. JOE! He was made into a special limited edition action figure for the fan club!

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0dQYN TIL Gastroenterologist Takanori Takebe won the 2024 Physiology Nobel Prize for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anus
PV6g TIL: There is a theory that the Dursleys in Harry Potter were such bad people because they were living with a horcrux (harry) for so long, similar to how other ones affected Ron and Ginny Weasley
r15M TIL Using iTunes to build nuclear weapons is against their terms of service.
RNAa TIL that Paris Hilton cost her family billions ($4.3 billion to be exact) because her grandfather decided to donate most of their money to charity because he was embarrassed at what she had done to the family name.
wNdo TIL that there are roughly 5,000 words of Old Norse origin present in the lexis of the English language and that one in 33 men in Britain can claim Norse ancestry.