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TIL: Nancy Grace embellished the story of her college fiance’s 1979 murder as a way to better support her image

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x6k05 TIL Birmingham, UK's 2nd largest city, was recorded in 1086 as a small settlement with just 9 households
GYwZJ TIL that "mile" derives from Latin "miles passus", meaning "thousand paces". In the same way, "kilo" derives from Greek and also means thousand. Thus, depending on which language you say "thousand" in, you are talking about either weight or distance.
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69G9J TIL that Michael Richards, who played Kramer on Seinfeld, appeared as a contestant on The Dating Game in 1968. He was not chosen for the date.
b6rgQ TIL that sea drops by about 328 ft (100m) near Sri Lanka because gravity is anomalously weaker there