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TIL about John Carpenter who called his father on the popular television show "Who wants to be a Millionaire" and told him that he was going to win the million dollars.

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gMlA9 TIL an 18th century American businessman published a book in which he ranted about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. It had no punctuation and had random capitalization. In the 2nd edition, he added an extra page with 13 lines of punctuation marks, stating that readers could put them anywhere.
VRPG TIL when volunteers providing food to elderly and poor people through the Meals on Wheels program began to notice that people were sharing their limited food with their pets, an organization called AniMeals was developed to feed their pets as well.
GYyK7 TIL the Spanish once granted automatic Spanish citizenship to Irish people. Due to their belief that the Irish were a group of ancient Spanairds who left Spain with a Spanish King called Míl Espáine to settle the Island of Ireland.
9Yjjr TIL that in 2016 a research ship was named The RRS Sir David Attenborough. An internet poll to suggest the name of the ship showed the actual winner was the name "Boaty McBoatface," but the Science Minister wanted a "more suitable name" and chose a different name from the poll's choices.
lrmA TIL We do not eat 8 spiders in our sleep every year and it was blatant misinformation made up by Lisa Holst who was criticizing gullible people believing anything