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TIL two Bangladeshi newspapers published an article using the Onion as a source. “We didn’t know the Onion was not a real news site.”

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vvbL TIL Tony Danza starred in a reality show in which he taught 10th grade students, which lasted one season because it wasn’t dramatic enough and Tony refused to allow the producers to try to generate drama among his students.
jjER TIL that the Internet has a patron saint named Saint Isidore of Seville. He compiled the knowledge of the ancient world and made it accessible for his own and future generations around 600 AD.
ngoP TIL that an Earl of Oxford once farted in front of Queen Elizabeth I and was so ashamed he left the country for 7 years
OGvv7 TIL about Parícutin. A volcano that suddenly appeared in the cornfield of Dionisio Pulido in 1943 and went extinct in 1952
WkaA9 TIL that there is a dog-bone shaped asteroid named Kleopatra. It also has 2 moons named Alexhelios and Cleoselene.