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TIL In his spare time, Steve Carell runs a General Store in Massachusetts.

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eXRn TIL carrots are used in carrot cake because during the medieval period, sweeteners were scarce and expensive, and carrots contain more sugar than any other vegetable besides the sugar beet.
9wwrM TIL of Adnan Khashoggi, a successful Saudi businessman who, among other business, would bring together US arms companies and the Saudi Government, and make a commission on deals. He became so rich he had a fleet of private jets and his lavish lifestyle cost $250,000 a day just to maintain.
ep0ZD TIL the mineral Lime will glow white after being heated, and that’s the reason for the term “In the limelight”
XEQB6 TIL the International Sweethearts of Rhythm was an all-female, multiracial band that toured in the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and ’40s, breaking both gender and racial barriers, with white bandmates wearing blackface to avoid charges of race-mixing.
OGOAe TIL in Ancient Rome Marcus Tullius Tiro created a system of shorthand called "Tironian notes" that persisted in use for almost 1700 years. Today it's last common usage is ⁊ (et) a shorthand for "and" used as a direct swap for & in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages.