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TIL a deceased man was considered a coauthor of a 1990 math paper after he appeared in a dream to the other author to explain some of the key ideas.

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8aENV TIL Al Capone is responsible for the expiry date on milk.
d6ed TIL studies have shown that dry counties have higher drunk driving fatalities than wet counties. Researchers believe that dry county residents will go to neighboring wet counties, get intoxicated, then have to drive back further while drunk.
xZl1 TIL the Pixar movies “A Bug’s Life,” “Monster’s Inc,” “Finding Nemo,” and “Wall-E” were all brainstormed during one lunch in 1994 by the writers of “Toy Story.”
VVEm TIL the human brain has shrunk by about the size of a tennis ball in the last 20,000 years
JY4B8 TIL Michael Jackson was supposed to attend a meeting at the top of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, but fell asleep and didn't go there.