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TIL the modern Ouija Board got its name by asking the board what it should be called

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1ge7 TIL that in the movie ‘The Grey’, during the filming of an emotional scene in which Liam Neeson’s character pens a letter to his faraway wife, director Joe Carnahan urged Neeson to write the letter to his deceased wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
8e0m4 Today I learned the first selfie ever taken was in 1839!
b9RXp TIL Mark Wahlberg revealed in 2012 he thinks he would have stopped 9/11
e0bGk TIL that the Australian Prime Minister who drowned at sea has a swimming centre named after him.
7ryGx TIL about the Sunland Baobab, a tree so big it had a pub installed in it in 1993.