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TIL ‘Darling’ means 'favourite minion’.

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WXPd TIL a serial killer responsible for the murder of more than 135 children will be released from prison no later than 2021, possibly sooner with “good behavior”.
9YV8r TIL that Homework was extremely controversial in the 1800s and early 1900. In 1901 California even banned homework for everybody under the age of 15.
lJjG TIL that Pauly Shore’s highest rated film is ‘Pauly Shore is Dead’, a movie about how his career of being in awful movies drives him to contemplate suicide
kJWRd TIL during a systemic crisis in the 1970s, 95 Third World states united with OPEC, which threatened to invest its petrodollar surpluses into a New International Economic Order. For the first time in history, an attempt at reforming world order came from an overwhelming global majority.
J1Op1 TIL, Jose Melena was at work loading pallets of canned tuna into a 35-foot-long pressure cooker when a coworker filled it up with 12,000 pounds of tuna and turned it on for 2 hours while Jose was still inside.