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TIL that there is a satirical Danish short show series called Nazitübbies that tries to imagine what the show Teletubbies would have been like had Nazis won the WWII

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WkmZo TIL Avocado Toast is not a new dish but has been consumed in San Francisco for 135 years.
GYOn7 TIL Mikhail Gorbachev’s “debut album” of romantic ballads was sold at auction in 2009 for £100,000 to fund research by his late wife’s foundation into childhood cancer. All of the songs, which Gorbachev sang himself, were favorites of his wife’s.
E9mo TIL that humans and domesticated animals now outweigh all wild terrestrial vertebrates by an order of magnitude.
wLeNo TIL that months after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Fred Rodgers and Francois Clemmons worked together to show the word how to integrate swimming pools by soaking their feet in the pool together.
5VJPR TIL that our voice has a considerable influence on how we are perceived by other people. A single spoken word is enough to obtain personality ratings that are highly consistent across independent listeners. Based on voice samples, AI can predict how a speaker tends to be perceived by other people.