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TIL the sock puppet Lamb Chop is a three-star general in the US Marines

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NPGP TIL that the molecules which produce the smell of lemons and oranges are mirror images somehow our nose knows the difference!
y0d8 TIL the word nimrod comes from a biblical figure, king Nimrod, who was a mighty hunter, but now means a stupid person after Bugs Bunny sarcastically referred to the hunter Elmer Fudd as nimrod in 1932. Most people did not get the joke and assumed it meant «stupid».
dDrvQ TIL that the first British person into space was cosmonaut Helen Sharman in 1991 aboard a Soviet Soyuz mission to the Mir space station.
YMZd TIL Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year. If alive, they both would be 84
e0P0b TIL Amtrak trains that are running on time stop in their tracks during fall daylight savings time and wait an hour before resuming. For spring forward, the trains automatically fall behind schedule at 2 a.m. and just have to do their best to make up the time