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TIL that Michael Jackson helped Little Richard get his publishing rights back after his record company at the time low balled him with a bad contract deal

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16K8V TIL that in Victorian England, post-mortem photography was a common way to memorialise loved ones - dead children were often posed to look alive, with painted-on eyes or blushed cheeks, and families would gather for their first and only portrait with the deceased.
ANmYl TIL from 1844 to 1846, The Count of Monte Cristo was first published as a serial. Alexander Dumas dribbled out revenge plots, identity reveals, crazy twists and long-lost connections over dozens of chapters—each ending in a cliffhanger that kept 19th-century readers on edge week after week.
LGrP TIL Loneliness can weaken the immune system
e67L TIL most Japanese schools don’t have janitors. Instead children do the cleaning daily as part of a practice rooted in Buddhist traditions that associate cleaning with morality.
W0l8 TIL a US Government agency has cataloged and assigned a value to “virtually every item that exists.”