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TIL The ‘O’ in Irish surnames means means 'grandson of’.

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nWXMo TIL the CIA accidentally left explosives in the engine of a school bus. The bus was in operation for two days, carrying kids, before the explosives were discovered by mechanics
e0oY6 Today I learned that Bob Marley's death was from skin cancer on his toe that metastasized and spread to his lungs.
Mem8B TIL that a group of teenagers back in the early 2000s exploited a park bench’s free dial-up connection (no I’m not kidding this was an actual thing) by making a couple of international calls, racking up a lot of costs for msn, the provider of the connection.
vKQL TIL There is a hidden vault behind the carved heads at Mount Rushmore. It contains the text from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. It is not accessible to the general public.
5EXD TIL a set of notes, written in an unknown cypher, were found in the pocket of a dead man in 1999 and the FBI and leading cryptographers have been completely unable to crack the code.