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TIL a woman won the New Jersey lottery twice, and now lives in a trailer park

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grDkL TIL Pierce Brosnan was offered James Bond in 1986 after NBC cancelled Remington Steele. However, the publicity of the offer improved Remington Steele's ratings and it was renewed, contractually requiring Brosnan to return to the show and forcing producers to have to look elsewhere for a James Bond.
Egg9W TiL for the Rolling Stones 1967 single "We Love You", John Lennon and Paul McCartney provided uncredited backing vocals.
OGvyX TIL that Blizzard was tricked into making StarCraft a AAA game: it was to be a modest project but after an impressive demo of Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 outshone it at E3 1996, it was decided to overhaul it completely. It later turned out that Dominion's demo was a pre-animated fake.
19JO TIL that the little dot on a lowercase “i” or “j” is called a “tittle”. There are ten tittles in this title.
X0Zvr TIL about the Coudersport Ice Mine in Pennsylvania. Huge ice formations up to 3' thick and 25' long appear in the cave during the spring and summer. The formations disappear in the winter.