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TIL PETA thinks Pokemon promotes animal cruelty

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oBKyR TIL All characters in The Simpsons have four fingers except for God who has five fingers
loZB7 TIL that Peru is Portuguese for turkey, meaning that there are two countries in the world called Turkey.
e0xX5 TIL that an episode of Peppa Pig that taught children that spiders were harmless and can’t hurt you was banned in Australia.
Kmx4 TIL of Valentina Vassilyeva, the Russian peasant who gave birth to 69 children by her husband Feodor. None were born solo, as she gave birth 27 different times - 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. Feodor later had an additional 18 children with his second wife.
bG14 TIL that in 1973, film director Claude Lelouch tested his new gyro-stabilized camera by strapping it to the front of a super-charged Mercedes and then tearing through the streets of Paris, running red lights, dodging pedestrians, and reaching speeds up to 140 MPH [video in comments]