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TIL that over 30 million Facebook accounts belong to dead people

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e09n4 TIL: At 14:00 today, the barbeque starts.
a8kNy TIL the iconic cutoff sweatshirt look for 1983's Flashdance was created on accident. Actress Jennifer Beals accidentally left her favorite sweatshirt in the dryer too long and shrunk it. She cut out the neck hole in order to fit her head through and went to a wardrobe fitting. The director loved it.
JWEm TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel did not want one.
JP94 TIL Jeanne de Clisson, a Frenchwoman whose husband was beheaded for treason, swore revenge and sold her family lands to buy 3 warships. For the next 13 years she went on a pirating binge, targeting King Philip VI’s ships, & personally beheading French noblemen she captured with an axe.
mx7VM TIL that George Carlin used to smoke pot while he was in the Air force and was court-martialed 3 times