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TIL: There are 50,000 undocumented Irish in US

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lALK TIL Eminem created Slim Shady when D12 (short for the dirty dozen) was formed. It included 6 rappers and their 6 alter egos.
DQQDr TIL Scientists Make Simulated Moondust, JSC-1 simulant, to use to test equipment intended for The Moon. It is very abrasive, which grinds machinery & seals, & damages human lungs.
GAygN TIL the "first complete Bible of any sort to be published in America didn’t come along until 1663. John Eliot’s Algonquin-language translation of the Bible, the so-called “Eliot Indian Bible,” was the first Bible to be published in the Western Hemisphere."
J9WB TIL a woman walked across the US continuously for 28 years, only to be killed in an automobile accident while being driven to a speaking engagement about her travels.
PY9JG TIL after an 84 year old man committed suicide, police discovered he'd been living under a false identity (of a dead 8 year old boy) for decades... his co-workers claim he never spoke, and he had no friends