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TIL Tom & Jerry ends with Tom & Jerry presumably committing suicide.

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vomr TIL there are prime numbers that are illegal to possess or distribute. One of the first ones, found in 2001, was used to bypass copyright protection on DVDs.

8ee4K TIL Waffle House gives out music awards for the most-played songs on their jukeboxes

6DG8 TIL Channing Tatum earned $400 for dancing and playing a bartender in Ricky Martin’s ‘She Bangs’ music video.

RDkl TIL that Cinderella’s slippers were not actually made of glass. A translation mistake from the original french version to english translated “vair” (fur) to “verre” (glass), which in french are pronounced exactly the same.

Nb6P TIL it’s only called an acronym when you pronounce the abbreviation as a real word (ex. NASA). Otherwise it is known as an initialism (ex. FBI).