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TIL that "Home Alone" still sits at #2 for the All Time Domestic Box Office Sales for Comedy Movies. It previously held the #1 spot for 27 years.

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NXd68 TIL Greenland's name was made by Erick the Red hoping that the pleasant name would lure other settlers to the island. To some extent, the trick worked because several Vikings from Iceland who were escaping famine managed to establish some settlements in Greenland after a few years.
oRkY7 TIL that eighth World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal had three fingers on his right hand
JYG68 TIL Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-born American computer architect who led the Intel team that invented the USB (Universal Serial Bus), regrets not making it reversible. It would have doubled the cost, which was a hard sell at the time, "[b]ut in hindsight, we blew it." He holds 132 patents and counting.
Lxbr TIL the record for the biggest gang bang ever is held by Lisa Sparks who had sex with 919 men.
80ZX TIL In a speech about peace talks with Japan after WWII, the Sri Lankan Finance Minister refused reparations even though their economy was damaged by the Japanese because he believed ‘hatred ceases not by hatred but by love’. The speech was met with resounding applause