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TIL that when Michael Jackson died, Google mistook millions of searches for a DDoS attack and blocked related searches for 30 minutes.

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gJpX TIL the heiress to the In-N-Out fortune, Lynsi Snyder, has deliberately kept herself out of the public eye due to kidnapping attempts; one of which occurred while she was still a teenager in highschool.
16GZP TIL about Dr. Peter Bryce who first blew the whistle in 1907 about the abysmal conditions of the Canadian residential school system, which destroyed his career. Today he is getting a plaque installed at the same publishing house that released his work in 1922, to honour his efforts.
WAnN TIL that a man and his friends made it from NY to CA in 28 hours and 50 minutes going the fastest they can in a Mercedes
X0MYQ TIL that during a murder trial in 1994 an English jury got drunk and consulted an Ouija board to determine the killer. This led to a retrial.
vpxx TIL: Men are more likely to be overweight than women, but women are more likely to be severely obese than men.