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TIL: A 33-year-old mother took the place of her 15-year-old daughter to attend high school and join the cheerleading team.

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P17LL TIL that years before the upcoming Gladiator 2, Russell Crowe commissioned a script for a sequel in which Maximus goes to the afterlife and gets resurrected, appearing in World War 2 and the Vietnam War, and ending with him in a suit and tie at the modern-day Pentagon.
ey4k TIL Listerine was first sold as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea
4DrR TIL John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) called out notorious pedophile radio personality Jimmy Savile for his crimes in 1978.
OGMEX TIL During the Second World War the Dutch Resistance and victims of the occupation were funneled 83 million guilders (equivalent to 450 million Euros 2021) by Gijs van Hall. Hall was a Resistance member and bank official who wrote millions in fraudulent loans to aid the Dutch people.
MR8A TIL that Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910