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TIL the accumulation of gunk between your toes is call Toe Jam

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VjnD TIL the painter Raphael snuck into the Sistine Chapel to look at the unfinished work while Michelangelo was gone, and upon seeing the paintings, went back to a completed painting of his own at the Church of Sant'Agostino, scraped it off the wall, and started completely over.
VMk0p TIL that baristas at the CIA Starbucks do not write down customers names on their cups and there are no frequent-customer award cards
D1mpj TIL the letter A, the second most common letter in English, doesn't appear in the spelling of any of the first 999 numbers
GAeyG TIL of the Socorro springsnail. This critically endangered snail only remains in a single New Mexico spring, which is on private property; since the owner has denied access since 1995, the current population and status of the species is unknown.
PGgV TIL Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.