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TIL the myth of the man-eating piranha was started as part of a spectacle to impress Theodore Roosevelt

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DQYWD TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to play on top of the World Trade Center in September 2000.
M7By8 TIL Elwood Edwards was paid $200 in 1989 for recording the iconic phrase "You've Got Mail" for AOL.
yVjJV TIL Oreos are the imitation knock-offs of Hydrox cookies that debuted four years earlier in 1908.
aZpN TIL that the USSR sent so many scientists and engineers to the gulag prisons that the government set up labs for them. While workers in the ‘Sharashka’ facilities did not have to perform hard labor like other inmates, their work was published under the names of more famous Soviet scientists.
e010J TIL of Project Normandy, a secret plan by the Church of Scientology to take over the city of Clearwater, Florida, by infiltrating government offices and media centers.