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TIL that the song My Sharona by the Knack was about a real person; she sells high end real estate today.

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XJwE TIL of the existence of the short-lived Florida-based nation State of Muskogee, which was founded in 1799 in an attempt to resist the expansion of the United States with the assistance of southeastern native tribes
ekmE TIL that the Mariner 1 probe, which was meant to orbit Venus, failed because of a missing hyphen in a line of code.
R7mQ7 TIL Fergie was not an original member of Black Eyed Peas. She replaced Kim Hill who left from growing concerns of objectification as the group was going mainstream in the early 2000s.
QNQeE TIL The most common type of brain cancer, Glioblastoma, has a typical 5-year survival rate of 5%, with only one person ever having been cured of the disease.
d8QYd TIL: Americans that live abroad and even get another citizenship, still have to pay US taxes