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TIL that Duff McKagan (Guns and Roses), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Jim Matheos (Fates Warning), Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue), Ryan Lewis (Lewis and Macklemore), Sir Mix A Lot, two Nobel Prize Winners, and Bill Gates' mother all went to Roosevelt High School, a public school in Seattle.

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mQpP TIL that a man survived the sinking of a ship in 1871, leaving him traumatized afterwards. Some forty years later he was finally able to overcome his fears and sail again… only to die on the Titanic.
OoEML TIL the population of English rabbits in Australia grew from 24 in 1859 to an estimated 10 billion in the 1920s!
WO8B TIL in 1897 Frank Hann noticed creeks in Western Australia flowed inland, and followed them, expecting to find a large fresh water lake. To his disappointment, the lake turned out to be salt and subsequently named it Lake Disappointment.
Ywv7 TIL that the Ice Bucket Challenge actually helped fund the the discovery of a gene linked to the cause of ALS. The gene, NEK1, and its variants held clues to understanding and treating the disease.
v1Der TIL about Beena, "a form of marriage used in pre-Islamic Arabia in which a wife would own a tent of her own, within which she retained complete independence from her husband".