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TIL the cover of the Neil Young album “Silver and Gold” was taken with a Game Boy Camera.

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ZV5R TIL learned when the Soviets exhumed Tamerlane’s body in 1941, they found an inscription in his casket that said “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Hitler invaded the USSR two days later
kJxke Today I Learned Potato blight that sparked Great Famine appeared in US two years before
M7KRb TIL Mauritania didn’t abolish slavery until 1981. Laws were only passed to enforce the ban, after international pressure in 2007.
dnrj TIL research indicates that you are less likely to maintain motivation to achieve a goal if you announce that goal to others (Link to PDF)
awgnA TIL Stephen Colbert donates his proceeds from the sale of AmeriCone Dream to charity