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TIL the average child in the UK spends less time outdoors than prison inmates

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VBVG8 TIL In 1996, Michael Hutchence presented Oasis with a Brit Award and during the acceptance, Noel Gallagher said, “Has-beens shouldn't be presenting awards to gonna-bes.” Afterward, Michael secretly re-recorded the INXS song "Elegantly Wasted" to include "I am better than Oasis".
EgQJ7 TIL Scott Joplin, the groundbreaking "King of Ragtime", died penniless of syphilitic dementia in 1917 in a sanitarium at just 48 and was buried in an unmarked grave, largely forgotten until a revival of interest in ragtime in the 70s led to him winning a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
oR1Xo TIL that the long s, written as ſ but pronounced the same way as the letter s, was used in written English until the early 19th century.
D1ADV TIL Gulag is actually an acronym of "Glavnoye Upravleniye LAGerej" or "Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Settlements"
Zgep TIL Eric Cartman has commited 43 different crimes