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TIL that "Stakka Bo" a one hit euro-dance wonder from the 90s ("here we go again") is now a renowned Emmy award winning director with credits like Breaking Bad, and Chernobyl.

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kOBnE TIL Typhoid Mary refused to wash her hands when preparing meals because she insisted on not having typhoid, even though almost all families she cooked for contracted the disease.
ABMx TIL that on August 1, 1946, in Athens, Tennessee, battle-hardened WWII veterans won a shootout with highly corrupt police deputies who were manipulating ballots and illegally holding ex-GIs in the county jail.
epyWJ TIL that Sesame Street was fiercely rejected by the BBC in 1971 because it had “authoritarian aims”. Monica Sims, the network head of childrens programming at the time stated “This sounds like indoctrination, and a dangerous extension of the use of television.”
YpOa7 TIL in 2016 two alligators were found guarding €500,000 worth of crystal meth, €300,000 in cash, and several firearms in Amsterdam. The owner of the crocodiles was following the law and had the appropriate permits for the animals.
DLle TIL that Jack Black’s parents are both rocket scientists.