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TIL Kokomo is not a real place, the Beach Boys made it up. The song was created for the 1988 Tom Cruise film Cocktail

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ng6Y TIL the saying “bless you” after a sneeze comes from 14th century Pope Gregory VII, who asked it be said after every sneeze to protect against the plague.
b6X79 TIL that of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King George of England, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the three rulers who contributed immensely to the outbreak and spread of World War I, the first two were grandchildren of Queen Victoria, and the third was her grandson-in-law.
47gR TIL: The 10th tallest pyramid in the world is a Bass Pro Shop in Memphis Tennessee
PVaZ TIL Boos, ghosts from the Mario video game series, are based on co-designer Takashi Tezuka’s wife who is usually quiet but exploded one day, maddened by all the time he spent at work. Similarly, a Boo “shrinks when Mario looks at it, but when Mario turns away, it grow[s] large and menacing.”
wmkE TIL in the Harry Potter universe, Professor Umbridge was arrested for hate-crime after the events of the Deathly Hallows.