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TIL Dolly Parton once entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest - and lost to a man

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loDXB TIL That the Voice Actor Who plays Master Chief in Halo has a Radio show
GYoyQ TIL food delivery services (like Doordash) secretly inflate the prices of food listed on their menus
XEO0P TIL from 1800 to 1860, Vermont's census reported 17 slaves. It was eventually discovered that this was an error and, in fact, there never were any slaves in Vermont.
DQegv TIL the term "soccer" (in reference to association football) was coined in Britain, and was used regularly until recently when the term became known as an "Americanism".
x6byk TIL that Apollo 8 astronauts Jim Lovell and William Anders are the earliest living recipients of Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" award, having been selected by the magazine for its 1968 issue