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TIL there are only 40 "LEGO Master Model Builders" in the world who get to build LEGOs for a living. There's also a "Master Builder Academy" where you can prep for a multi-round competition for the job.	1
TIL that the movie In & Out was inspired by an actual event: when Tom Hanks accidentally outed his gay High School drama teacher during an Oscar acceptance speech.	1
TIL that sperm whales are so called because their heads are filled with large amounts of oily fluid, which the whalers believed to be sperm. Scientists still aren't sure what it's there for.	1
TIL in 1885 a 19-year-old newspaper boy named William Donovan won an endurance roller skating race by traveling 1,092 miles in just 6 days. He died just hours after winning the race. He was the second person to die from that race, out of 36 people.	1
TIL that the earliest reported case of coronavirus infection happened in the 1920s to the respiratory system of chickens in North America.	1
TIL Mexicans associate the seven-note musical "door knock" known as "Shave and a Haircut (Two Bits)", with the seven-syllable phrase ¡Chinga tu madre, cabrón! (Go fuck your mother, asshole!). Playing the jingle on a car horn can result in a hefty fine if done in the presence of police.	1
TIL Mexicans associate the seven-note musical "door knock" known as "Shave and a Haircut (Two Bits)", with the seven-syllable phrase ¡Chinga tu madre, cabrón! Playing the jingle on a car horn can result in a hefty fine if done in the presence of police.	1
TIL that Elizabeth Homes, ex-CEO and founder of Theranos created a fake lab for Joe Biden to tour to boost the company’s credibility	1
TIL Civil War Union general and president of the United States (1869-1877) Ulysses S. Grant's great-great grandson, Ulysses Grant Dietz, is a museum curator and writer of gay vampire fiction.	1
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