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TIL sugar has at least 56 different names.

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mxQwp TIL that This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is the only movie on IMDb that is rated out of 11 instead of 10 all because of a running joke in the movie
X0QPj TIL that despite its name, "Kentish Town", an area of London, is neither a town nor located in Kent, has never been part of Kent, and there is nothing particularly "Kentish" about it.
Ypglr TIL There are more Tigers in American backyards than in the wild
8epoP TIL in 1913 factory manager Leo Frank was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan based largely on the testimony of janitor Jim Conley, who said Frank paid him to dispose of the body. Frank was lynched by an angry mob. Later investigation strongly suggests that Conley was the real killer all along.
nWnEb TIL pepperoni is an entirely American invention, first made in New York City in the late 1910s.