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TIL in 2007 a court awarded the rights to OJ Simpson’s “If I Did It” book to the Goldman family. It was renamed “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer”, with the “If” reduced in size to make it appear that the title was “I Did It”

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KOG4w TIL: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of the X-Rays, chose the name himself and didn't want them to be named after him. It is used worldwide with exception to his native Germany where they are call Röntgenstrahlen (Röntgen-Ray)
4XprR TIL California's economy is now the 5th-biggest in the world, and has overtaken the UK, India & France
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M7db TIL that in 1967 the two factions involved in the Nigerian civil war declared a 48 hour ceasefire in order to watch Pele play in a football (soccer) match.