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TIL Mr T was the youngest child of 12 children. He and his four sisters and seven brothers grew up in a three-bedroom apartment.

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0dXkA TIL the term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which posits that the term was popularized by the CIA to discredit conspiratorial believers who opposed the Warren Commission Report that concluded JFK was assassinated by a lone gunman.
LkXW9 TIL, once a jockey died half way around the track in a race, but his horse finished first making him the first man ever to win a horse race while dead.
M7bNm TIL that there was a real-life Lord of the Flies-esque situation where school boys were stuck on a deserted island for 15 months but the boys banded together rather than feuding.
4X1oX TIL Rags, who became a World War I dog hero, was originally just a stray pup picked up by a couple of American soldiers in July of 1918. He carried messages from one US infantry division to the next tucked under his collar. He was buried with military honours when he died in 1936.
QNPOd TIL Capri-Sun is named after the Italian island of Capri