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TIL there is a word for the blob of toothpaste on your toothbrush, and that word is nurdle.

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wxb6 TIL During the production of Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas came into work one day with a cough, and decided that it would be amusing to record it and use it on the new Episode III villain, General Grievous.
1GmV TIL there is a worsening and unexplained epidemic in China involving violent, random individuals walking into elementary schools and mutilating or killing children.
OGZO6 TIL that Winston Churchill wrote an essay before WW2 about extraterrestrial life, and travelling to the Moon.
logAa TIL that Hawaii was previously a internationally recognized kingdom, but was overthrown in 1893 by mostly foreign insurgents. The islands were eventually annexed by the USA.
wVOo TIL - During the American Civil War, Southern children were fed excuses for why Santa would not be visiting them on Christmas. One excuse was that a yankee had shot him.