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TIL of Stubbs, an honorary Mayor of a town in Alaska

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mpWP TIL that the Confucius genealogical line as the longest family tree in history, with 86 recorded generations over 2,500 years: the Chinese philosopher (551 to 479 BCE) is thought to have 3 million descendants all over the world.
1JJD TIL the German Word for Nipple is Brustwarz; which means “Breast-wart.”
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78GWp TIL that adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in 1920. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger while working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.