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

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OWR6 TIL Up until the 1970s the US Government used forced sterilization on Native American women
6EOl7 TIL Golden rice is a variety of rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene. It is intended to be consumed in areas with a shortage of dietary vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency each year is estimated to kill 670,000 children under the age of 5
P1pJ TIL that John Stewart is worth eighty million USD, thirty million more than Bill O'Reilly
X099j TIL that Uday, son of Saddam Hussein, once tortured members of the Iraqi national football team for losing 2-1 against Kazakhstan, caning their feet and beating them up.
mxd7M TIL that after "Freddy Got Fingered" won multiple Razzie Awards, Tom Green personally attended to accept his awards. He brought his own red carpet, and during his speech he played the harmonica so poorly and for so long he had to be dragged off the stage.