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TIL Johnny Cash voice recorded himself reading the entire King James New Testament, and is available to listen to.

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9e7p TIL in 1942 a British forest guard in India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.
5XwR TIL: In 1966, toy sellers were reluctant to stock Twister, which critics called ‘sex in a box,’ until a PR firm got Johnny Carson to play the party game with one of his guests, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. Milton Bradley sold 3 million copies the following year.
e0rA5 TIL Iceland has a genealogy book containing details of every Icelander going back as far as the 9th century
Jg41 TIL there is a spike in break-ups that occurs before Valentines Day, Spring Break, Summer, and the holidays.
GJ17 TIL that when Take That disbanded in 1996, so many teenage girls in the UK were openly distraught that the UK Government actually set up telephone hotlines for counselling.