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TIL that Dolly Parton considered suicide in the 1980s. Her dog "Popeye" jumped on her and distracted her from following through.

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P1AoV TIL Zillion is not a number
joPa TIL that when a Soviet anthropologist exhumed Timurlane, he found a transcription that read “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” The exhumation occurred on the same day that Germany invaded the USSR.
mdKo TIL that the average age of NASA engineers at the time of Apollo 11 was 28. Nowadays it’s 47
5aV8 TIL that chance the rapper raised $60,000 in just 10 days for the homeless in Chicago!
5VxB TIL there is a village in the Peruvian Andes that celebrates Christmas by getting drunk and beating the shit out of each other.