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TIL Frank Sinatra had a bottle of jack daniels placed beside him in his coffin.

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6E0NW TIL Active since at least 1998, "in concert with the CIA and FBI, (NSA's) TAO is used to intercept laptops purchased online, divert them to secret warehouses where spyware and hardware is installed, and send them on to customers."
5VQAp TIL in 1763 John Adams wrote seven essays under the pen name Humphrey Ploughjogger
d8BB7 TIL that Johnny Cash's brother, Jack, died when he was 14 after getting mangled by a table saw after cutting wood. Johnny, who admired his brother a lot, was heartbroken. According to his sister, Johnny helped dig Jack's grave.
9wAdQ TIL in the 1987 movie Robocop, the city hall building of Dallas, Texas was used as OCP headquarters. Matte paintings were used to make the building appear taller.
R7D8 TIL that when challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence, Dorothy Parker famously said: ‘you can lead a horticulture but you cannot make her think’