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TIL the child actress playing Annie, sampled by Jay-Z for "Hard Knock Life", retired from acting and become a successful songwriter herself (New Radicals "You Get What You Give", "Lost Stars" from Begin Again, etc)

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lojYG TIL In 2014, The New York Times reported that "In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America.
D1BXv TIL that boxing announcer Michael Buffer and UFC's announcer Bruce Buffer are long lost half-brothers that hadn't met until Michael was 49.
pn7Q TIL the song “Mother” by Danzig is about Tipper Gore and the Parental Advisory label put on albums.
kJ5pg TIL of Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP), also known as Tooth-in-Eye surgery, was first developed in the 1960s. This procedure involves implanting a tooth into a blind person’s eye to help restore their sight and continues to be performed today.
Jad8 TIL an American/Canadian Space Gun, Which Shot a Projectile 112 Miles High, Sits Rusting in a Barbados Jungle