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TIL the term 'spam' referring to unwanted junk emails comes from Monty Python's Spam sketch

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aw0AN TIL that, on the 1996 opening day of the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios Hollywood, Steven Spielberg boarded the ride but requested that he be let off before the 86 foot (26 m) drop.
yVbYa TIL the last on-screen appearance Orson Welles ever made was on the TV show Moonlighting, where he read an introduction to assure audiences that the sudden shift to black-and-white is not a sign there is something wrong with their televisions.
e555 TIL: The name for Seattle’s “South Lake Union Trolley - the S.L.U.T.” was changed when officials belatedly realized the acronym.
Z8QwB TIL Wolverine dads often visit their young until they reach 10 weeks of age. Sometimes when the young reach 6 months of age, they may reconnect with their fathers and travel together for a time.
vggB TIL in 1899 the southern States had four days of arctic cold, enough to freeze the entire length of the Mississippi River