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TIL Miami Beach used to be an overwhelmingly Jewish community

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168Pd TIL that after WWE wrestler Diamond Dallas Page went through a character change in late 2001, that being of a motivational over-the-top positive speaker, he would get his teeth whitened and got a facelift to fully commit to the new character.
8aLpK TIL that pine trees can produce a soapy foam after a heavy rainfall, due to rain water dissolving chemicals from the tree bark as it flows down the stem of the tree.
boG4 TIL in 1959, a white author underwent skin treatments to appear African-American, hitchhiked around the Pre-Civil Rights South to experience hatred and racism firsthand, then wrote a bestselling book about it.
E4Mx TIL the makers of Sesame Street release a statement saying Bert and Ernie aren’t getting married, and don’t have any sexual orientation. Because they’re puppets.
9k1X TIL that Bill Murray thinks Kung Fu Hustle is “the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy”.