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TIL Tim Horton died after crashing his car driving drunk and high

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l0Da TIL US Open quarterfinalist Gael Monfils beat the “Roger Federer of paddle tennis” after learning how to play just days earlier
QJWra TIL Ireland threw away its piece of moon rock estimated to be worth millions. "It's still there under a couple of tonnes of trash. That could definitely be worth over $5m (£3.1m). I'll tell you where it's at. It's in the Finglas landfill dump in Dublin," Gutheinz says.
xVRVo TIL that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the BBC apologised for a live political debate show where some in the audience told the US Ambassador that America had brought 9/11 on itself as a result of its foreign policy .
GA1Q4 TIL a 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is the "most scientifically accurate of all films of this [killer virus] genre ... it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it.
yoJV TIL- Milk duds don’t contain milk chocolate at all but a mix of cocoa and vegetable oil.