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TIL There's a plot of prime Tokyo real estate nobody will develop on because, after samurai was executed there, it's been connected to a bunch of weird accidents and deaths

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pVgN TIL In a post-debacle interview after being caught lip syncing at shows, one of the members of Milli Vanilli defended himself by saying, “[Before Milli Vanilli] I was working at a McDonald’s. What would you have done?”
vPjb7 Today I learned the largest weight lost ever is held by Khalid bin Mohsen Shaar, who lost a total of 1,195 pounds! Starting at 1,340 pounds (610kg) and ending at 150 pounds (68kg)! He’s listed as the 2nd heaviest human ever at his heaviest.
AgJ7 TIL Johnny Appleseed planted trees that were mainly used to produce hard cider and apple jack, not edible apples.
8aKgb TIL Quarantine is from Italian 'quaranta giorni', meaning "forty days", used in 14th-15th-century Venetian dialect and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic
KOKr9 TIL Late in his life, Charles Lindbergh had affairs that produced three children by a German woman and two children by her sister. These children only found out who their father was using DNA testing after his death.