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TIL Gumby once played Eddie Murphy as a shout out to SNL..

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gMnOX TIL despite Portuguese neutrality in WWII British ships were allowed to refuel in Portugal because of a treaty signed over 600 years ago - the Treaty of Windsor, which is the longest lasting alliance treaty in the world. The treaty has been invoked several times to save Portugal from invasion.
PYbNZ TIL babies don't have object permanence, meaning the concept of something existing without them perceiving it is foreign to them. Anything they can't see, doesn't exist.
86aK TIL Trevor Moore of The Whitest Kids U’ Know became the world’s youngest published cartoonist at the age of 12 with his book “Scraps”
Ae8x TIL that 60-70% of all the deforestation in the Amazon is due to clearing land for cattle ranching
8e7gX TIL that in Boggle, the only two Fs and the only K are on the same cube, making it impossible to spell any word containing both F and K. Combining B and J is impossible for the same reason.