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TIL that the cars in Oprah’s famous car giveaway back in 2004 were actually donated by General Motors and weren’t from Oprah herself

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L4vZ TIL Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of “The Fresh Prince.”
rNW5y TIL Michael Peterson AKA Charles Bronson once let his hostage go because the hostage farted in front of him and he was disgusted by it.
8aY9b TIL women in ancient Rome didn’t have unique first names, but instead were just named after their family name. (For example, all women from Gaius Julius Caesar’s family were named Julia. Sisters were told apart by using nicknames, such as ‘Julia the Younger’, ‘Julia the Elder’, etc.)
rRXE4 TIL a British spy 'fired the shot that finished off Rasputin'
VM00p TIL of the "Tetris Effect" which occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams.