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TIL fuel made from grass is called "grassoline"

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yVQXM TIL that in the summer of 2017, Mike Meyers hosted 10 episodes of The Gong Show in full makeup as a character named Tommy Maitland - the show's emcee. It wasn't revealed that it was him until the following January.
8DGV TIL the Simpson’s couch gag is frequently used by the show’s writers to make the show longer or shorter, depending on the length of the episode itself.
l7Bpa TIL: In 1965, Heinz Holzapfel, his wife Jutta and son, fled the communist east Berlin ziplining from a government building over the Berlin Wall.
5VD4P TIL that back in the day, marijuana was in all kinds of medicines, like stuff for headaches, pain, and even depression. It was everywhere until the 1930s, when the government decided to freak out about it and make it illegal.