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TIL One of the reasons pirates and sailors wore earrings at sea was to cover funeral expenses if they died.

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b9Q19 TIL Superbowl halftime Musical Performers are paid NOTHING for their performance.
PYGrG TIL a California HS teacher designed an experiment/demonstration to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime during WWII. It lasted 5 days and grew from just his class of 30 to over 200 students.
W7EkX TIL of a very rare condition called Anton syndrome, in which a person becomes blind however they are unaware of it and will deny it, as their brain generates (false) visual images so they continue to believe that they can see.
PYBvV TIL, John D. Rockefeller was the world's first Billionaire and it was his near-monopoly oil business in the USA that necessitated the federal and states governments to create Antitrust laws.
WkPP4 TIL of the four recorded deaths by killer whales three of them were by the same killer whale named Tilikum.