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TIL of the French Paradox, the low rate of French heart disease despite a diet rich in fat and alcohol

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JrNj TIL that “poecilonym” is a synonym for “synonym”.
GYKEg TIL In 2015, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield released the first ever album recorded entirely in space, named Space Sessions: Songs from a Tin Can.
8NNV TIL When Stephen Hawking was in California, he visited a strip club with his entourage of nurses and got VIP dances on the bed with two naked strippers
vPYr TIL R.L. Stine, the author of the “Goosebumps” children’s books, also wrote the novelization of the film “Spaceballs”
W6Q8 TIL that the location of the world’s tallest tree, Hyperion, standing at 379 feet, is kept a secret, and is hiding somewhere in California