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TIL: Nelly has sent two kids to college every year for the past 10 years.

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MJOb TIL the Church of Scientology ran several smear campaigns against author Paulette Cooper, one of their critics, including Operation Freakout, the goal of which was to have her admitted to a mental institution. Another, Operation Dynamite, used Cooper’s fingerprints to send bomb threats to the Church
5VoaB TIL that the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish can revert back to its juvenile form after reaching adulthood, essentially allowing it to bypass death and become biologically immortal.
WkJwB TIL only one person is known to have survived a lynching in the United States. His name was James Cameron and he went on to found America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
P0Jw TIL the phrase “Money is the root of all evil.” is a misquotation of “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” which has quite a different meaning.
6NvY TIL that as a teenager Vlad the Impaler was a hostage of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, and learned Turkish during this time. Later, while fighting the Ottomans, Vlad would disguise himself as a Turk, infiltrate and destory a series of fortresses.