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TIL Fox News has a whole segment dedicated to recycling Reddit material. It’s called “Fox On Reddit.”

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p8BoG TIL J.K.Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was originally written for the charity Comic Relief. 80% of the cover price goes to charity, and sales of the book has raised $30 million since 2001.
EgPZV TIL that Bing and other "paradogs" were trained to drop with parachutes behind enemy lines in WW2. Bing earned a medal for Gallantry for excellent patrol work while serving with the 13th Btn. Airborne Division in Normandy, June 1944.
BgV7W TIL of Pancho Claus, a “Tex-Mex” cousin of Santa Claus, that gives out toys to kids in Hispanic neighborhoods out of his low rider.
W7ge4 TIL that the tallest tree ever measured wasn’t actually a redwood. It was an Australian mountain ash. Which was recorded at a height of over 130 meters!
J1Pev Til that Tobey McGuire was briefly fired as Spider-Man for faking an injury. Jake Gyllenhaal was already in place.