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TIL Michael Jackson has “hundreds” of unreleased songs that were discovered in his vault after he died

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dOQK TIL “i.e.” isn’t shorthand for “for example”, and actually means “in other words”. Whereas “e.g.” should be used to say “for example”
5VAXn TIL That Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at or close by to three presidential assassinations. Later in life he would decline a presidential invitation stating that "...there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."
PkbZ TIL: Before playing J-ROC on Trailer Park Boys, Jonathan Torrens hosted a kids financial awareness program in the 1990s called, “Street Cents”
OpdX TIL Antarctica’s largest land animal is a 2mm-long insect called Belgica antarctica, the only insect on the continent.
YwVZ TIL In 1979, following the disappearance of Dallas Eggbert, the popular role-playing game “Dungeons & Dragons” became the subject of a modern witch hunt called the “Satanic Panic”