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TIL that the Marshall Mathers LP Was Initially Titled 'Amsterdam.'

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nblW TIL That Lennart Green, world champion close-up card magician was disqualified from the 1988 competition when the magician judges thought he must have been using stooges to shuffle the cards. He performed the same trick 3 years later, asking the judges to do the shuffling and won.
wa4P TIL in 2009 a Man Who Was an Expert on How to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Mexico Was Kidnapped in Mexico After Giving a Lecture On “How To Not Be Kidnapped in Mexico”
N7GRN TIL "Baseball is so popular in Japan that many new Japanese fans are surprised to learn that Americans also consider it their 'national sport'"
yV0LV TIL Anton Yelchin who played Chekov in the newer star trek films was killed when he was checking on his mail at the end of his steep driveway; his Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled into him and pinned him against a pillar
wokl6 TIL that gazing at one's own face in the mirror for a few minutes, at a low illumination level, produces the apparition of strange faces