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TIL Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts other than one poetry night. He played open mic nights all over the city before he was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who was so impressed that he offered Sheeran the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.

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wLVd8 Roy Moore's horse has a twitter account
JYpmB TIL of Rita Crundwell, who embezzled $53.7 million during her 22 year career as treasure and controller of Dixon, Illinois. She used this money to support her championship Quarter Horse breeding operation. In 2008 alone, she was able to embezzle $5.8 million off of a city budget of $8-9 million.
l7vxr TIL about the Cuban Rafter crisis resulting in 35k fleeing to u.s. by makeshift rafts. Resulted in 16k deaths (1994)
XERER TIL, the author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, is most responsible for the creation of Thanksgiving being a national holiday.
x6aP0 TIL: That in the Battle Of Athens TN (1946), veterans rebelled against corrupt local government