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TIL "Chris-R" from Tommy Wiseau's The Room is an Olympic Athlete

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wLK06 TIL that Medieval Norse fabrics were so exquisitely preserved in Greenland that a 20th century woman would retrieve them from archaeological sites and reuse them for childrens clothes
ekL6 TIL that in 1950 Louis Eliasberg completed the first and only complete U.S. coin collection - one of every date, metal, denomination, and mint mark ever struck as of that year
wbe7 TIL Jell-O is an especially popular food among Mormons, as the Mormon corridor region has been nicknamed “The Jell-O belt”. The food has even become the official state snack of Utah.
wLZJM TIL in antartica, scientists recently found fossil fragments of 13 trees that are over 260 million years old, meaning that this forest was growing at the end of the Permian Period, before the first dinosaurs. At that time, Antarctica was still at the South pole
Wk8wB TIL the song Purple Rain is a live recording performed by Prince's band at a 1983 benefit concert