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TIL Kids program entertainer Blippi (Stevin John) once did a Harlem Shake video with him defecating on a naked friend's ass

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mpER TIL despite being illegal in most states, marijuana is the United States’ largest cash crop today with a value greater than that of corn and wheat combined.
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WgWA TIL that an asthmatic boy died in a severe asthma attack because the school forbid asthma inhalers; while the boy was dying, the inhalers sat in a safe at the principal’s office.
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BrvMD TIL the reason that Christmas is celebrated on the 25th December is that Pope Julius I adopted that day as Christ's birthday to appropriate the existing pagan celebration of Sol Invictus that was already celebrated on that day.