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TIL in 2009 ChumbaWamba recorded an EP to be released in the event of Margaret Thatcher’s death.

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lwMB TIL corn flakes were invented to cure masturbation.
lBdK TIL 500,00 Americans faced a low-tech Y2K when they pre-ordered headstones with “19-” inscribed for their death date, then lived past the year 2000.
xoAg TIL Oscar the cat, a stray taken in by a Rhode Island nursing home, seems to only visit patients shortly before death. He is so accurate in predicting peoples death, that their families are notified as soon as he gets cozy to a patient.
691m8 TIL that hand and arm transplants are a thing in lieu of prosthetics
neANr TIL when you donate at the Indigo/Chapters/Coles checkout to buy books for kids, schools that receive the money must use it to buy books ONLY from Indigo/Chapters/Coles and only at full retail price.