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TIL Billy Joel has legally trademarked the term “Billy Joel”

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LQ1Op TIL about the Bloody Benders, a family of 4 serial killers who lived and operated in Labette County, Kansas from 1871 to 1872. The Ingalls family, from Little House on the Prairie, lived near Independence, and Laura Ingalls Wilder mentioned the Bender family in her writings.
vPPWD TIL Our Sun can make a total of 80 different elements: helium and then everything from carbon through polonium, but nothing heavier. For that, you need a supernova or a neutron star collision. Of all the types of naturally occurring elements here on Earth, the Sun can make about 90% of them.
6EGeX TIL people With Fregoli delusion think everyone they meet is the same person in disguise
75KO TIL Charles Darwin was the first person to put wheels on an office chair, creating the modern office chair.
XgGE TIL that Tim Allen almost got a life sentence for dealing coke, but got off after snitching on nearly two dozen other dealers.