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TIL: The Berenstein Bears and Berenstain Bears both existed

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rRdv0 TIL In Ancient Egypt, elite dined off meat, fruit, vegetables, and honey-sweetened cakes enhanced by the finest of wines, but the poor were limited to a more monotonous diet of bread, fish, beans, onions and garlic washed down with a sweet, soupy beer
pdPp TIL that when the Big Bang theory was first presented, most scientists rejected it for sounding too religious.
NZ9M TIL that the original surveyors of Mount Everest lied and added 2 feet to its height to make it 29,002 feet, because they didn’t think people would believe them if they said it was really 29,000 feet high.
4kyZR TIL Dick Van Dyke was rescued by porpoises after he fell asleep while surfing. He woke up out of sight of land and tried paddling back, suddenly the sea creatures emerged and saved his life by helping push him back to the shore
69M9l TIL the Celilo Falls on the Colombia River was one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in North America and a major fishing and trading hub for many Native American tribes. In 1957, the newly-built Dalles Dam submerged the falls along with many settlements which had to be relocated.