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TIL A turkey is called a Hindi in Turkey because of everyone being confused as to where this bird came from in the days of the New World

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WKGY TIL that Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Rec, Scott Pilgrim vs The World) suffered a stroke leaving her paralyzed and aphasic (unable to speak) in 2004
y9lX TIL that Pablo Escobar made $420 Million Dollars a week.
Y7gyB TIL an on-board fire that caused the crash of an Imperial Airways flight in 1933 is suspected to be the first instance of airliner sabotage.
QVXX TIL that while George Harrison was being treated for a brain tumor in Switzerland, Ringo Starr went to visit him, but had to cut his stay short to go to Boston where his daughter was undergoing brain surgery. Harrison immediately asked Starr if he should go to Boston with him.
mJWE TIL the term “mark” (for a gullible person) originated at carnivals when workers operating games of chance would give a patron a slap on the back with a dust covered hand, “marking” him as a sucker for other carnival operators.