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TIL that rebecca black (the girl from the Friday song) still makes music and put out a new album in 2017.

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KOdlR TIL that during the American Civil War, banker J.P. Morgan bought five thousand rifles from an army arsenal at $3.50 each, which were then resold to a field general for $22 each.
QJm7M TIL Dr. James Simpson, who first showed the effects of chloroform on humans in 1847. He sat with his assistants nightly trying chemicals. After they collapsed and came to after using chloroform, he recognized its anesthetic potential. He nicknamed the first baby delivered by chloroform "Anesthesia."
R70G1 TIL a psychology professor taught his sheepdog to recognize more than 1000 different toys by name. The dog could even infer names by discerning which toy it did not recognize.
KJjB TIL Johnny Depp’s first performance as Jack Sparrow earned him an Academy Award nomination. Roger Ebert himself reviewed: “There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie.”
69R1W TIL, the 1996 Lake Huron Cyclone was a low pressure cyclonic storm which formed over Lake Huron in September of 1996.