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TIL that Tilly Smith, 10 years old British schoolgirl, saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.

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kJd41 TIL that Song 2, Blur's signature rock song that goes "WOOHOO", is exactly 2 minutes and 2 seconds long and also has 2 verses and 2 choruses. The band also decided to keep the song's name as its place in the tracklist rather than naming it something else.
b9vO9 TIL that "The Saga Begins," Weird Al Yankovic's parody of the song "American Pie" where he lays out the plot of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, was written almost entirely based on internet spoilers.
8aXPK TIL when Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated the throne in 1918, Einstein wrote in his journal “[Lecture] cancelled due to revolution."
LkL7Q TIL Mötley Crüe Front man, Vince Neil killed friend and fellow musician Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley and caused brain injury to two other people while driving drunk in 1985. Because, in Neil's own words, "that's the power of cash".
rRkeo TIL that the retirement age for men in the USA was set at 65 in 1935. The average life expectancy at the time was 61.7 years old.