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TIL undelivered letters from 313AD were discovered in the ruins of a NW Chinese watchtower—one is from a desperate Sogdian (ancient central Asian people) woman named Miwnay, addressed to her husband who brought her to China & left. She & her daughter, now poor, then became servants in a Chinese home

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d8LpK TIL the Sheriff of Hillsborough County Florida (which includes Tampa) has a son who was sentenced to two years in jail for attacking someone with a knife. The son is an aspiring rapper named Zchronik and his last song “Slash Yo Face” was played as evidence before the court.
v99B TIL that Robert De Niro snapped at his wife at a Manhattan bar that he “wouldn’t have to keep making shitty movies” if she didn’t spend all his money.
P1QWO TIL that a 6 year-old girl used Amazon Alexa to order a $160 dollhouse and 4 lb of cookies. When a San Diego TV station broadcast a news report on the incident, the words "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse" caused Alexa devices around the city to try to order dollhouses.
Eg01d TIL Will Ferrell & Andy Murray played Will Arnett & Andy Roddick in the '09 US Open
W7118 TIL The town of Brownsville, Oregon, which served as the filming location for Stand By Me, celebrated the 30th anniversary of film's release by introducing the first "Ray Brower Memorial 5K Walk/Run," named in honor of the dead body around which the film's plot revolved.