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TIL that Leeroy Jenkins was staged.

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yQRe8 TIL an early Oral Roberts Ministries world headquarters building was equipped with what was said to be “the world’s largest freight elevator, reputedly capable of taking an entire U.S. Postal truck loaded with the mailed donations of Roberts’ faithful TV audience to a secure processing room.”
nvyb TIL That Michael Jackson was involved in over 1,500 law suits and gave his testimony over 1000 times.
9YZpQ TIL in 1982 an American undergrad student argued that a constitutional amendment proposed in 1789 could still be approved by Congress. When he received a "C," he started a letter writing campaign and got the amendment ratified. His grade was changed to an "A" in 2016.
9wL4r TIL that the city of Tulsa is basically a contraction of the word “Tallahassee”, the Creek word for “Old Town”.
kORK4 TIL About a third of all fish and seafood eaten around the world is mislabelled. And the amount of fraud being committed is increasing.