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TIL none of the members of Tony! Toni! Toné! are in fact named Tony.

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KgQ6 TIL that spammers will pay people in countries such as India & China pennies per hour to continuously solve CAPTCHA codes.
ZE4Y TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines which states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
wLx5P TIL that in this famous photo of a man being executed in the Vietnam War, both the executioner and the executed have the exact same Family name: Nguyễn. The reason for the brutal summary execution was because he had slit the throats of a military leader and his entire family, all also named Nguyễn.
dDDLd TIL that during the American Civil War, the Union regularly cracked the Confederacy's coded messages because the Confederacy relied on a limited number of key phrases for encrypting their messages, one of which was "Complete Victory".
J16g4 TIL about Vesna Vulović who survived a 6.3-mile fall after a bomb destroyed the plane she was a flight attendant on