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TIL twitter was almost called Twitch.

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QJQ5k TIL of Story Musgrave, the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees, a consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California, and is the only astronaut to fly on all 5 Space Shuttles.
9wwR7 TIL that nobody has ever been arrested for a crime in Tristan da Cunha, a remote group of small islands in the Atlantic Ocean that boasts a population of 250
vPx58 TIL that a man who faked being a lawyer went to jail even though he won all 26 of his cases
QJlwd TIL of Robert Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - he "financed the final years" of the American Revolution," turned down an appointment as first Treasury Secretary and recommended Alexander Hamilton, and subsequently served time in debtors' prison.
gVOL TIL HBO passed on The Walking Dead because it was too violent and gory.