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TIL 1,000 people wrote in to disagree with Marilyn von Savant’s (World’s Highest IQ) answer to the Monty Hall problem. And they were all wrong.

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d8gbZ TIL Iwao Takamoto, the Japanese-American animator and designer behind cartoons such as Scooby-Doo, Penelope Pitstop and several Disney characters, learned his skills as a teenage prisoner in the Manzanar internment camp, which held over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
XEWNj TIL When building the Trevi Fountain, Nicola Salvi ensured to add an urn on the right before he died. This was to block an “unsightly” barbershop whose owner had been continuously critiquing the work.
WknKY TIL that the Czech Republic technically owns parts of the Hamburg port
R5wOw TIL the military helped invent Cheetos as they needed shelf-stable food for WWII and ended up with a mountain of dehydrated cheese after the war ended.
epe8J TIL that US "Gold Star" next-of-kin are eligible for lifetime free access to all National Park Service parks