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TIL students once hacked the MIT website to say that Disney had bought the school for $6.9 billion as an April Fools Day prank.

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j9ba TIL there are people who think the standardized intonation of music (A=440Hz) is inharmonious with the universe and should be changed to A=432Hz, which shares resonance properties with the world around us.
XE7BE TIL of Patty Cannon who was notorious for leading a gang that kidnapped free blacks and sold them back into slavery in what was known as the Reverse Underground Railroad. In 1829, she was arrested for murdering a slave owner and stealing his $15,000.
nWyyB TIL about the "Pretzel Belt" where 80% of pretzels in the US come from.
XEge6 TIL the Isle of Pabbay in the Hebrides was abandoned when every male resident of the island was lost at sea. Another of the Isles had all its sheep washed away by a wave
APR4 TIL that The Strip, the thing Las Vegas is most famous for, is not actually located within the city of Las Vegas. It is in an adjacent unincorporated area of Clark County known as Paradise, Nevada.