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TIL that Up With People, the upbeat youth ensemble that headlined four Super Bowl halftime shows, was financed by companies like Exxon and Halliburton with the intention of counteracting social change in the U.S. and promoting American capitalism overseas

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N9VQ TIL a reporter for the Morning Bulletin in Australia once wrote an article about 30 000 pigs escaping from a farm. The paper had to issue a retraction the next day when it transpired the reporter had misheard the farmer. In fact, 30 sows and pigs had escaped.
749Z TIL Professor Xavier(X-Men) has a son named Legion who has over 200 multiple personalities and each personality has a different superpower
oBLVR TIL, While alcohol made from apples is called cider, alcohol made from pears is called "Perry"
PZVw TIL in 2010 during a heat wave Siberian bears began to dig up cemetaries and eat the corpses of humans
PYkyL Today I learned that there's a California University and an Indiana University, and both of them are located in Pennsylvania.