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TIL Charles Manson’s mother once sold him to a waitress for a pitcher of beer. His uncle retrieved him some days later.

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oRJQY TIL The seven-day weekly cycle (Sunday→Monday→Tuesday→Wednesday→Thursday→Friday→Saturday) has remained unbroken since ancient Rome.
J1bAl TIL in 1951, Clint Eastwood was on a military plane when its oxygen, navigation, and communications systems failed. As the fuel ran out, they crashed into the ocean off Point Reyes. Eastwood and the pilot survived, rowing through the dark on a life raft to a lighthouse, and were rescued.
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4AvN TIL in 1619 an American law required every household to grow hemp