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Today I learned that Mel Gibson's father was a reactionary Catholic and antisemitic conspiracy theorist who was also the grand champion of Jeopardy! in 1968

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neVLP TIL In 2018, the word 'embiggen' from The Simpsons was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. It has been used in research papers on String Theory.
yGxv TIL America is still declared a “State of Emergency”
J8xj TIL that the ‘Cinnamon Challenge’ can result in a collapsed lung
gZBA TIL The three highest-paid people in the Pentagon are football coaches
D7jJ TIL “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order.