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TIL Joseph Williams, son of film composer John Williams, is the lead singer of the band TOTO.

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Ool7 TIL a man built a restaurant in Northern Iraq called MaDonal’s after McDonald’s turned denied his request. The restaurant serves items such as “Big Macks,” and serves free food to U.S. forces, and thus has been threatened by suicide bombers, turning the man into a local celebrity.
awlxL TIL actor Robert Mitchum proposed to his wife by saying "Stick with me, kid, and you'll be farting through silk." Their marriage lasted 57 years.
nWLRo TIL that Spanish and Hispanic American cultures don’t have a Tooth Fairy. They have El Ratoncito Pérez (Perez the Little Mouse) or Ratón Pérez (Perez Mouse)
m5Ey TIL a 1996 school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland, was the catalyst for Britain’s handgun ban.
p8vQN TIL Over a five-year period starting in 1968, commercial jets were hijacked nearly once a week in the United States.