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TIL that the IMDB rating for “This is Spinal Tap” is out of 11 stars.

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Z8EbG TIL Singapore will pay couples the equivalent of $120,000 to have 2 babies. It’s called a baby bonus and it’s meant to fight the quickly dropping fertility rate in the country.
GAAQ TIL there was a Canadian poet who wrote almost entirely about cheese. He is widely considered to be one of the worst poets ever
4kLx5 TIL that a 2008 Sydney, Australia drug-case jury was dismissed for playing Sudoku during the trial
M7jDA TIL in 1937 the soviets discovered that Samuel Dickstein, a prominent NY congressman, was running a criminal business of selling illegal US passports. He got on the soviet payroll for $1,250 a month($27k today) with the codename "crook", refering to his greediness. Nobody found out until the 90's
QN4dM TIL about the NOAA Corps, the eighth federal uniformed service, alongside the six Military services and Public Health Service. It has just 321 enlisted officers, and operates 15 ships and 10 aircraft.