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TIL Charlie From 'The Chocolate Factory' Was Originally Black

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GKNQ TIL that according to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.
epPXE TIL attendance at Detroit Tigers’ home games in 1976—excluding the home opener—was 33,649 in the 18 games started by Mark Fidrych and just 15,147 in games started by other pitchers, amounting to a 122.2 percent increase in attendance to watch the charismatic right-hander.
j6rBX TIL Poland syndrome is the name of a breast deformation, and not the practice of attacking countries while claiming to "shoot back"
ZGQY TIL in 1994, the operational head of the U.S. Public Health Service was fired for saying masturbation should be encouraged in order to prevent people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity.
l7bRa TIL that hippos are the closest living relatives of whales