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TIL that the rapper Rick Ross was previously a correctional officer

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Nwnb TIL the eternal flame at Arc de Triomphe in Paris has only been extinguished once: by drunken Mexican football fans who urinated it after the final of 1998 World Cup, when France defeated Brazil
b99e4 TIL that before alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, it was common for people in Britain and Ireland to hire a 'knocker-upper", a person who's job was to wake people by using a long stick to tap on their windows, or in some instances, they would use a pea-shooter.
p8gWG TIL in 1959 Cornell physicists had speculated that any extraterrestrial civilization attempting to communicate via radio signals might do so using a frequency of 1420 mHz which is naturally emitted by hydrogen. 18 years later that exact transmission was read in Ohio, nicknamed the "Wow! signal".
7rgxP TIL on the night of September 10, 2001 Michael Jackson performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The next morning he was scheduled to attend a meeting at the World Trade Center but overslept, missing the meeting and avoiding the attack on the towers.
E1a4w TIL in WW2 they used special smoke screens that were that were half a mile long and hundreds of feet tall to hide ships and blimps from enemies.