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TIL NFL players Nick, Joey, and John Bosa, Eric and Jake Kumerow are all grandsons of longtime Chicago Outfit crime boss Tony Accardo.

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9yKM TIL spelling bees are a particularly American/British phenomenon. Other languages spell their words so intuitively that one can easily spell them just by hearing them. English, on the other hand, contains Latin, Greek, Germanic, etc. roots, not to mention whole words borrowed from other languages.
69Xkm TIL expiration date doesn't mean the food/product will be spoiled/dangerous to use, it's just used to indicate peak freshness
6Jgm TIL: The east coast of the united states has better average internet connection speed than the west coast
kAR1 TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.
Wk4eB TIL during the forced removal of Native Americans to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears, many African American slaves were owned by tribes and forced to go as well. After the Civil War, the Freedmen founded their own communities and Oklahoma became home to over 50 All-Black Towns and settlements.