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TIL an Italian man found wandering Edinburgh claiming to have no memory of who he was or how he got there admitted to faking amnesia to avoid his nagging mother-in-law. His disappearance from Pisa raised suspicion when online searches 'how to disappear' and 'how to fake memory loss' were discovered.

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69yLl TIL Folk/blues singer Lead Belly recorded the first known usage of the term "stay woke". He used the term in the song Scottsboro Boys to warn black audiences about lynch mobs in Alabama.
VMkvB TIL Divine Brown used the money stemming from her liasion with Hugh Grant to get her out of prostitution and get her kids into private school.
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