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TIL it was rumored that comedian Benny Hill was buried with a fortune in gold and jewelry. After his grave was found robbed and left open, a large cement slab was placed over the grave to protect it.

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a8NJ9 TIL that Toy Story was the first entirely computer-animated feature film
5yZ8 TIL DJ Khaled’s original stage name was Arab Attack, which he changed shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
g7yA TIL that Malcolm X and possible Martin Luther King Jr. were planning on bringing the US Government in front of the United Nations on charges of human rights violations against African Americans
69NQJ TIL: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade 2021 used about 400,000 cubic feet of helium.
lv5A TIL “lb” is descended from the Roman libra (hence the abbreviation “lb”); the name pound is a Germanic adaptation of the Latin phrase libra pondo, ‘a pound by weight’. And that’s why “pound” is abbreviated as “lb”.