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TIL that if you search “(random actor) bacon number”, google will tell you how many degrees away from Kevin Bacon that actor is.

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KOB6 TIL The Spice Girls personally made $75million between ‘96 and '98. Their global grosses were estimated at $500-800million. They only released TWO albums.
VMlb0 TIL about Mill Ends Park, the world's tiniest city park. It's a circle 2 feet (0.61 m) across in the median of a street in Portland, Oregon. It was intended as the site for a light pole, but when no light pole appeared, someone planted flowers instead. It was named an official city park in 1976.
OoO1g TIL the man behind SNL's "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" during the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Handey, is an actual person, and not a pen name or character
l5dr TIL During WWII there was a scheme to make Hitler more docile by lacing his food with hormone oestrogen.
Am4a TIL that famous physicist Richard Feynman’s second wife divorced him because he would do calculus “while lying in bed at night.”