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TIL that Roald Dahl wrote ‘The Twits’ because he hated beards and wanted to “do something against [them]”

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1gZd TIL Wall Street’s iconic 7,100lb bronze Charging Bull sculpture is actually an illegal piece of street art
l7oLN TIL about the "Inventio Fortunata," a lost book that described the North Pole as a magnetic island surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents, believed to be written in the 14th century. Its influence on maps of the Arctic region persisted into the 16th and 17th centuries.
6nxJ TIL Bears eat things that don’t digest to plug their rectum during hibernation. The result is a very painful BM in the springtime.
Y5WP TIL Bruce Lee was a national dance champion, winning the 1958 Cha Cha Championship in Hong Kong
rR8Kw TIL about an experiment "universe 25" that studied societal collapse due to overpopulation using rats that inspired the children’s book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.