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TIL that people, especially the youth, have been perceived by older generations as “ruining” the English language for centuries.

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Q4bk TIL in May of 1945, a Sunday School Teacher and 5 children became the only Mainland Casualties of WWII when they found a Japanese “Balloon Bomb” in Rural Oregon. The last words of the Teacher were: “Look what I found, dear”
a6P0 TIL that Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) from LoTR composed the music and sung “Aragorn’s Coronation” in “LoTR: Return of The King”
P94V TIL that at his parties, Freddie Mercury had midgets carrying around trays of cocaine on their heads
edy6 TIL a caterpillar turns almost entirely into liquid before rebuilding itself as a butterfly.
7Dkx TIL By the mid-1990s Jean Claude Van Damme developed a cocaine habit, on which he spent up to $10,000 a week, and consuming up to 10 grams per day by 1996.