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TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic was valedictorian of his class before earning a bachelors degree in architecture.

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WkBdY TIL that the coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate, is also the largest hermit crab species.
GYE95 TIL Whiskey means "Water of Life"
BWkK TIL that following the deadly 1977 crash of the plane carrying the band Lynyrd Skynyrd into a Mississippi swamp, the survivors sought help at a nearby farmhouse, only to have the farmer who lived there shoot the band’s drummer in the shoulder.
l7R5V TIL The Association to Stop Racism Against Black People was a private organization founded in Japan in 1988. Based in Sakai, Osaka, the association was noted for causing publishers around Japan to suspend printing localized versions of the picture book The Story of Little Black Sambo.
AxEB TIL that between 1970 and 1980, 2 billionaire brothers attempted to corner the silver market. They owned an estimated 1/3rd of the world supply when in 1980 the silver price collapsed with 80%. The brothers lost over a billion dollars.