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TIL of a 4,000 year old complaint letter (in clay) about a delivery of sub-standard copper ingots.

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PYjEZ TIL about General John C. Pemberton, the Confederate General at Vicksburg who was born in Pennsylvania and whose younger brothers fought for the Union. Pemberton fought for the Confederacy due to the influence of his wife, who was a Virginian
4Ogg TIL that Saddam Hussein used Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” as his campaign song in the 2002 election
7DRP TIL the familiar ‘valentine’ logo at the beginning and ending of 'I Love Lucy’ wasn’t added until the show went into syndication. The show was originally sponsored by Philip Morris, and began with Lucy and Ricky dancing around a huge pack of cigarettes.
r1N0 TIL The organization (OCEARCH) that tagged 2 great white sharks off of Cape Cod in September has an interactive shark tracker on their website so you can see where Genie and Mary Lee are hanging out.
WkVrX TIL Mark Henry has the world record for combined lifts of snatch, clean&jerk, squat, bench press and deadlift totaling 3324.5 lbs all in drug tested competitions. Making him arguably the strong man to have ever lived.