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TIL- NERF stands for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam

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PYjrV TIL Robert E. Lee was opposed to the construction of Civil War monuments
9YX6r TIL that Eric Clapton’s Tears In Heaven was written about his 4 year old son, Connor Clapton, who died by falling out of an apartment building.
5yyn TIL of the Cleveland Elementary School shooting which took place in 1979 in San Diego, California. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, killed the principal and a custodian, and injured 8 children and a police officer. When asked by a reporter why she did it, she said “I don’t like Mondays.”
LkaLV TIL Jerry Orbach, who played Lennie Briscoe on the original Law & Order and voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast, was diagnosed with cancer less than 2 years into Law & Order. Despite being diagnosed more than a decade before his death, his disease was not publicly known until weeks before death.
wLWJW TIL that sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes while underwater