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TIL That Rolling Stone magazine named Aretha Franklin as the greatest singer of all time

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woy4J TIL that between the 1920s and the 1990s, around half a million US prisoners underwent state-sanctioned plastic surgery in attempts to rehabilitate repeat offenders based on the idea that appearance impacted the likelihood of reoffending.
wLM6W TIL: The car JFK was assassinated in was cleaned and repurposed back into rotation and served as the presidential limo for Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter before being retired in 1977.
NXkyJ TIL that people report being bored about 10 hours a week at work, according to researchers.
BromD TIL The term 'Mahoska' from 'The Untouchables', misquoted as 'mahaska', originates from the Irish phrase 'My Business'.
vPpx8 TIL that after hurricane Katrina, due to miscalculation, FEMA had 85M pounds of ice at storage facilites around the U.S and melted it two years later after 12.5 million dollars in storage fees.