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TIL Over the whole Twilight saga, there are over 24 minutes of just staring.

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E1dad TIL Michael Jackson’s will dictates that his estate annually donate 20% of his posthumous earnings to various charities.
JKWj TIL for over a decade teachers and principals in Atlanta erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones in students’ tests. At one school, the faculty held weekend pizza parties to correct answers before turning them in. Over the course of a single year, scores at the school jumped 45 percent.
m1xAO TIL Ted Turner created his own alternative to the Olympics, the Goodwill Games, and Turner believed international sporting competitions would prevent future wars. The Games lasted from 1986 to 2001 and featured the first major international beach volleyball event.
nelwB TIL that Texas scrapped the last meal tradition for condemned inmates after one of James Byrd Jr's killers died without having touched his enormous request
4krwo TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, grew to become the US Secretary of War (1881-1885) and lived to the age of 82, dying in 1926