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TIL that Macaulay Culkin's middle name is Macaulay Culkin

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N7DK8 TIL that Daylight Savings Time has been shown to increase the rate of heart attacks (AMI’s) by 24% the morning of the time change. Scientists think this is due to the change in our sleep cycle. Conversely, when the time switches back, the study showed a 21% decrease in AMI’s that day.
R7WNa TIL the last battle between British and US forces on American soil took place in Alabama in 1815. The British abandoned their assault on Mobile when HMS Brazen arrived with news of a peace treaty.
vZgj TIL Denis Leary and Bill Hicks were close friends, until Leary stole Hicks’ material
APkl TIL an endurance athlete, Dean Karnazes, ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005
ZeoG TIL that in 1980 John Gotti’s son was hit by a car and died, and Gotti had the driver abducted and killed