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TIL The word "Tragedy" comes from an ancient Greek word meaning "Goat song"

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lep7 TIL A terrorist attack plan, using an explosive-laden belt in Moscow, on New Years was foiled when a Spam-Text was sent to the cell phone that triggers the bomb. The text was sent two hours early by the cell phone provider saying, “Happy New Years”.
KxVw TIL In 2015, Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments (a credit card processing company), caused an uproar by paying his employees a minimum salary of $70k. He has been called everything from a socialist to a hero to a crusader.
DQLe TIL that Samuel L. Jackson ODed on heroin a few times so switched to coke.
DDQD TIL that the two songs whose tempo is closest to the optimum for performing CPR on someone who has just suffered a heart attack - 100 bpm - are “Stayin’ Alive” and “Another One Bites The Dust”
M7k50 TIL that Iowa is the only state in the United States whose eastern and western borders are created entirely by rivers