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TIL Macaulay Culkin's real name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.

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9wNwX TIL that around 2020, anthropogenic mass (human-made material) was expected to exceed all living biomass on earth
rDR4 TIL that the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, a secular, democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. This led to 26 years of rule under a repressive monarch.
QJV7p TIL that Vanderbilt University, founded in 1873, is named in honor of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million endowment and hoped that his gift and the work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted on the American nation by the Civil War.
O0lY TIL “Slang” is slang for short language
LkMd0 TIL after his bomber was hit, RAF gunner Nicholas Alkemade decided to jump from 18,000 feet without a parachute, just moments before his bomber blew up. He landed on top of a snow cover and survived with only a twisted knee. The Germans were so impressed they certified the story as being authentic.