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TIL the phrase ‘23 Skidoo’, meaning “let’s get out of here”, was America’s first truly national fad expression.

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Y7ZJW TIL there is such a thing as an antimatter factory- and one is currently active at CERN.
Xml6 TIL the Aral Sea, once the 4th largest lake in the world, has been steadily shrinking since the 1960’s. It’s now 1/10th the original size. Nearly 90% of the water has now given way to sandy desert with wrecks of beached boats dotting the surface.
xVRd5 TIL Cats domesticated themselves. They existed unchanged until the Middle Ages; and even now are genetically extremely close to their ancestors.
a8PeZ TIL, Bobby Brown’s Don't Be Cruel was the best-selling album of 1989 in the United States, and finished number one on the Billboard Year-End album chart. Eventually the album sold 12 million copies worldwide in less than a decade.
m1a6y TIL of a Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement fighting for nation sovereignty. Some independence groups are asking for compensation for the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen and subsequent military occupation.