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TIL the Backstreet Boys and Nsync had the same manager. And he defrauded both out of millions.

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JLr4 TIL Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue full of joke science, like one paper that said men die before women because they are stupid. But years later these articles are cited by scientists as real, and this is causing a lot of problems.
8nmL TIL: January is named after Janus, the Roman God of two faces, one that looks back to the past and the other that looks forward to the future
15o8 TIL that Johnny Knoxville has to use a catheter 2x a day to prevent scar tissue from building up in his penis because of all the penis-punishing pranks he’s done
Z8Lo TIL that Ayn Rand spent the last 6 years of her life on Social Security and Medicare, after a lifetime of condemning both programs.
OG674 TIL slavery was restored in French colonies by Napoleon, causing a rebellion by former slaves led by Louis Delgrès. After realizing they could not win and refused to surrender, they ignited their gunpowder stores, committing suicide in the process, attempting to kill as many French troops as possibl