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TIL the Japanese version of "to split hairs" literally translates to "fart-logic."

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AN64l TIL Kathleen Caronna was in a month-long coma after a Thanksgiving Day parade float knocked a lamppost onto her head in 1997. She bought a nice apartment with the settlement money and 9 years later, Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into her high rise and the engine landed in her bedroom.
0dmL5 TIL That there was mysterious stone found buried in the ground in New Hampshire in 1872 that has no known age, purpose or origin.
x6VXk TIL Before the 1930s, the US 45th Infantry division's symbol was a red square with a yellow Hooked Cross, a tribute to the large Native American population in the southwestern United States.
GYKgQ TIL Sanora Babb was writing a book about the Dust Bowl but John Steinbeck stole her notes to write The Grapes of Wrath, and as it was felt the market couldn’t support two books about the subject, her book remained unpublished until 2004.
NQGE TIL In 1965, the FBI knowingly caused 4 innocent men to be falsely convicted and sentenced to die because the real murderer was an informant for the agency.