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TIL that comedian and magician The Amazing Johnathan has been diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and most likely has less than a year to live.

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web8 TIL that there is a verse in Dante’s Inferno that has no translation and no one knows what it means.
Mejja TIL The Secret Garden the 1993 Film, Two (2) Castles in North Yorkshire was used to portray Misselthwaite Manor: Allerton Castle & Fountains Hall. The Staircase of London's Midland Grand Hotel is also a film location. This is same place where 1996 'Wannabe' video of Spice Girls is taken.
R167 TIL that in 1954, Royal Crown was the first company to sell soft drinks in a can, and later the first company to sell a soft drink in an aluminum can.
OjXe TIL in 1999, Daylight Savings Time thwarted a terrorist bombing in Israel. The West Bank had changed clocks while Israel hadn’t. The terrorists had set timers on bombs which detonated an hour early, killing three terrorists.
LkyRv TIL In 1732 Jonathan Swift wrote a poem about a man who sneaks into his mistress' dressing room and smells her filthy chamber pot full of poop.