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TIL In 1998 the E.L.F. burned down the Vail Ski Resort causing $12 million in damages.

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prBp TIL Ice-T released a song called “99 Problems” eleven years before Jay-Z did, with the same chorus.
xVxB0 TIL that Thomas Edison Jr., unlike his famous father, was a terrible inventor. Eventually, he resorted to selling snake oil like the "Edison Magno-Electric Vitalizer", embarrassing his father so much that he was given an allowance of 900 dollars a week to stop marketing his own "inventions".
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8aQB8 TIL In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh
16lW7 TIL Neil Armstrong had rejected numerous proposals to have an author write his biography until he finally accepted a proposal from James Hansen, a history professor. He eventually recorded more than 50 hours of interviews with Armstrong, who did not demand approval rights for "First Man" nor profit