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TIL Bill Gaines of MAD Magazine send the whole staff to Haiti to thank their ONE Haitian subscriber.

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WQ8A TIL Marilyn Monroe’s signature breathy voice was a strategy to conceal her stutter
4leg TIL Victoria cross recipient Charles Smith Rutherford, single-handedly took 45 German soldiers prisoner. After calmly drawing his revolver he managed to convince the enemy that they were surrounded.
epDVg TIL that Kraftwerk got paid 200.000 euros for the official Hannover Expo 2000 jingle. It was 4 seconds long!
9bgm TIL Cher is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each of the past six decades.
6EXxl TIL a Japanese twitter user had his account permanently suspended for making a death threat against a mosquito