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TIL The Mississippi University for Women has a Men’s Basketball team.

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4RXJ TIL Canadian astronomer and renowned eclipse chaser J. W. Campbell traveled the world for 50 years trying to see 12 different eclipses. He ran into overcast skies every time.
wVP TIL that the Virgin river ends in Las Vegas. Why am I not surprised?
nKmd TIL: Nairobi, Kenya has a thriving country music scene because Kenyans “can identify with the stories in the songs.” Country Music CDs make up 15% of all music sold.
oBOJW TIL William Safire was asked to prepare a speech for president Nixon to read on television to the world if Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became stranded on the moon.
V6M0 TIL, In 2010 General Electric brought in $14,000,000,000 in profit world wide, with over $5,000,000,000 in profit brought from the United States alone, and paid no taxes.