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TIL ABBA turned down 1 billion US dollars to do a 100 concert reunion tour

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16vj8 TIL the term "John Hancock" colloquially used to refer to one's signature is due to John Hancock's distinctive and bold signature on the Declaration of Independence.
GAxA1 TIL Hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs.
9YWRB TIL About a toothpaste company that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a manufacturing problem... Months later they learned a line worker found a more efficient solution and fixed the problem with a cheap fan.
6E0vm TIL in 1957, a 23-year-old man murdered two police officers after they pulled him over for running a red light. 45 years later, he was caught when a print from the crime was matched to a 1956 burglary. He hadn’t committed any other crimes in the intervening years.
woeQJ TIL human sweat is “the most extreme and distinctively human evolutionary trait as a whole”