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TIL The Beastie Boys used to open for themselves in disguise as a heavy metal band

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m181O TIL the first Who Wants to Be a Millionaire video game was developed by Jellyvision, the creators of You Don't Know Jack, and became one of the fastest-selling PC games of all time.
6LWW TIL the world’s first supermodel, Evelyn Nesbit, inspired her coal baron husband to shoot another man at a performance at Madison Square Garden. The trial was so full of shocking details about her relationships that a church group lobbied for a publication ban, and the jury had to be sequestered.
kJ1KW TIL no POTUS has been an only child.
ggPD TIL Bizzy Bone, of Bone Thugs and Harmony, was one of the first few abducted children in America that was rescued due to the efforts of John Walsh and America’s Most Wanted.
wW5P TIL in 1940 two RAAF training planes collided in mid-air and as a result, locked together and formed a de-facto biplane. The “biplane” was landed safely by the pilot of the upper plane; there were no casualties.