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TIL ''The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Gone with the Wind'' were directed by the same person in the same year

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QJe99 TIL the longest prison sentence ever given in the U.S. was a sentence for 30,000 years!
KOoNQ TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker
p8gnA TIL that before British rule, India represented 30% of global GDP, by their independence it dropped to 2%. At the same time, Britain's share of the world economy rose from 2.9% in 1700 up to 9% in 1870 alone
mxmZx TIL That Tylenol, Acetaminophen, and Paracetamol are the same drug AND are just various abbreviations of the drug’s full name para-acetylaminophenol (para-aceTYLaminophENOL, para-ACETylAMINOPHENol, and PARA-aCETylAMinophenOL).
QAWa TIL Academy Award winning composer John Williams (Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones) is the father of Toto (“Africa”) frontman Joseph Williams.