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TIL when Chris Pratt’s wrestling coach asked what he wished to do with his life he responded with ‘I don’t know, but I know I’ll be famous and I know I’ll make a shit ton of money.’

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BrNyK TIL the Hershey's holiday commercial "Christmas Bells" has aired every holiday season for the past 28 years
40VJ TIL that in 2002, a fire at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen girls. It has been strongly suggested that their deaths occured due to the involvement of the “religious police,” who prevented them from leaving the building because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress.
M7A7B TIL the Byzantine Emperor had an elite personal guard (The Varangians) composed of Norsemen, Rus, and Anglo-Saxons who emigrated to Constantinople.
e05Z6 TIL that Animorphs's entire 64-book run was published in a span of 5 years
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