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TIL that 99 year old Dick Van Dyke had to be rescued by three neighbors after he was found crawling to his vehicle trying to evacuate a California wildfire last December

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VMa7m TIL Reading Rainbow was canceled after funding shifted towards shows that taught children how to read rather than why to read. “Reading Rainbow encouraged kids to pick up a book and read.”
1Gv8 TIL The definition for ‘literally’ now includes 'in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually,’ which literally changes the definition of literally. The phrase 'He was literally drowning in his own tears’ is grammatically correct, even if the person isn’t, in reality, drowning in their own tears.
JYNYQ TIL about the island of Poveglia. It was used to quarantine plague victims until their death and then turned into an mental hospital until 1968. Now it’s nothing but haunted.
9Yxm7 TIL that the name Caligula is a childhood nickname that roughly translates to “little boots” or “bootikins.” The infamous emperor, whose real name was Gaius, hated it.
4k6eR TIL A Nigerian city Igbo-Ora has such a high amount of identical twins to the point where there is an annual festival celebrating twins, with over 1,000 pairs of them in attendance