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TIL the word ‘soccer’ originated in the late 1800’s and was 'Oxford slang’ for the 'assoc’ in Association football (the full title of the game)

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XEDkR TIL When Michael Jackson was 15 years old, a family member arranged for two prostitutes to take his virginity Before being locked in a room with him. Michael picked up a Bible and read bible verses to the girls. The girls left in tears.
v1XPR TIL after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 the debris field stretched from Texas through Louisiana, and the search team was so thorough they found nearly 84,000 pieces of the shuttle, as well as a number of murder victims and a few meth labs.
b9wn9 TIL Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was the first person to be “Buried in space”. On April 21, 1997, his ashes were brought to the Canary Islands and loaded aboard the Pegasus-XL and launched out of the rocket.
RK58 TIL Barry Goldwater said, And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. “
v1Dax TIL that the video game Rock Band: The Beatles was produced under the code name Rock Band: Nickelback, in order to keep the game's development a secret and deflect curiosity about it