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TIL the pair of legs on the final segment of a centipede is called the "ultimate legs"

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R6j6 TIL Tom Cruise sent letters and gifts to the boy who originally played the little boy in “Jerry Maguire” but was replaced by Jonathan Lipnicki, because he “just didn’t want that first actor to go to the movies, look at the screen and think he’d failed. I wanted him to love movies his entire life.”
8eexG TIL in 1945 a Nazi U-boat was destroyed because of a malfunctioning toilet
Meoem TIL the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy collects about $4000 worth of coins every day. Most of the money goes towards charities like a supermarket for the needy.
KPYR TIL that due to the inclusion of a leap day and two leap seconds, 1972 is the longest year in history.
690gm TIL that Avicii died in 2018