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TIL that author Tom Clancy died in 2013 but his name is still used on new novels written by ghostwriters.

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69RXX TIL in the 1982 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the song “London Bridges” was chosen as the melody for the Silver Shamrock jingle simply because it was available in the public domain, and therefore saving the filmmaker’s the cost of licensing a song or hiring someone to write a jingle.
pOp8 TIL in China “body fishers” keep the dead bodies of bridge jumpers until customers come to buy the remains of their loved ones.
9wdrm TIL The state sport of Maryland is jousting!
BVee TIL Otto von Bismarck once stated that when war came to Europe “it will be some damn fool thing in the Balkans that sets it off” thirty years before Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which kicked off the start of World War One.
yVykX TIL that in the geologic record, a thin layer of sediment separates the Mesozoic Era (the age of the dinosaurs) from the Cenozoic (the current era). This sediment is unusually high in Iridium, an element much more common in asteroids than on earth.