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TIL ABBA turned down ONE BILLION DOLLARS to do a reunion tour

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9YRkp TIL Town Line, NY seceded from the Union during the Civil War, contributing a handful of soldiers to the Confederacy. Curiously, it never rejoined the Union as it was not a formally recognized municipality before the war. It "officially" rejoined the Union in 1946 on a vote of 90 to 23.
8PX TIL People in the middle ages did in fact not believe the earth was flat.
e0DV6 TIL Dominos Pizza ended the "30 Minutes or it's Free" guarantee, in the 1980s, after a delivery driver killed a woman trying to meet the time constraint.
xwOb TIL that the Republic of Nepal has given no names to its seven provinces, only serial numbers.
04p1 TIL that Bill Nye’s only marriage lasted only for seven weeks and that he actually had to get a restraining order against his ex after she poured weed killer in his garden