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TIL a University of Georgia graduate founded the school's eventual rival, Georgia Tech

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OG0K7 TIL of Cockaigne, an imaginary land of plenty in medieval myth, where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand. In Cockaigne, abbots are beaten by their monks, nuns are flipped over to show their bottoms, and the skies rain cheese.
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awKoA TIL that Michael Keaton's character in "Beetlejuice" is actually "Betelgeuse" (named after the star), and that Burton wanted Sammy Davis Jr in the role
p0pO TIL that due to the country’s ultra low fertility rate, South Koreans are projected to go extinct by the year 2750.
wo6XE TIL that Otis Redding’s iconic song 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay' was recorded just days before he died in a plane crash, and it became the first posthumous number-one single in the U.S.