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TIL there is an academic journal dedicated to the study of The Beatles. The Journal of Beatles Studies is published by Liverpool University Press.

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woKwM TIL that JFK and Jackie had a stillborn child who was unnamed, but later referred to as Arabella.
6aZX TIL: The expression ‘mad as a hatter’ is based from the real-life behavior of hatters from the 17th century. It wasn’t until 1941 that hatters discovered that the mercury they used to make hats was poisoning them and making them insane.
9Wp6 TIL that children will regrow the tip of their finger if it is cut off
QN0y9 TIL Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, one of the most widely known spiritual and philosophical classic books by the Roman emperor, was not intended to be a book but a personal diary, which was carried out from AD 171 to the present day.
l7xpK Til The Oldest Grizzly Bear lived to be 56 years old in captivity. The oldest polar bear in the wild lived to be 32. And astonishingly the oldest black bear lived to be 56 years old IN THE WILD.