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TIL when Brazilian football/soccer player Pelé died last December, he was survived by his 100-year-old mother, Celeste, who, given her advanced age, did not understand her son's death. Pelé's sister Maria Lucia do Nascimento described their mother as "in her own little world."

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b0B7 TIL after the parishioners of a North Texas Anti-Vaccination Megachurch suffered a measles outbreak in 2013, the church leader issued the following statement: “So I’m going to tell you what the facts are, and the facts are the facts, but then we know the truth. That always overcomes facts”
X0JXE TIL that chicken McNuggets (introduced nationwide only in 1983) come in 4 shapes: the bell, the bow-tie, the ball and the boot. McDonalds states "The 4 shapes we make Chicken McNuggets in was the perfect equilibrium of dipability and fun. 3 would’ve been too few. 5 would’ve been, like, wacky."
b9WJa TIL of Precordial catch syndrome, a condition where you get random harmless stabbing pains in the chest
X0K0j TIL Beethoven’s late quartets, now widely considered to be among the greatest musical compositions of all time, were so ahead of their time that initial reviews deem them indecipherable, uncorrected horrors, with one musician saying “we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is.”
Ex1d TIL that 16 US states let more than 2,700 companies pocket some or all of its workers’ income taxes without having to notify the workers, diverting more than $5.5 billion dollars from public purposes for private gain in the last two decades.