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TIL that a man lived at the AOL hq for 2 months. He used the showers and food court. While everyone else thought he worked there he was actually working on his own startup.

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GYRYG TIL that only five (5) athletes--three women and two men--have ever won a medal at both the Winter AND Summer Olympic Games. Eddie Eagan, the first to do it, is still the only athlete to win gold in both.
dpjQ TIL those weird times when you learn some new random or obscure piece of information and then proceed encounter it all over the place or run into it conversation soon afterwords does in fact have a name: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
Armw TIL When Joan Crawford died, her long time rival Bette Davis said:“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good … Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
JYb8m TIL the first thanks giving in America was not celebrated in Plymouth Massachussets, but in Berkeley Hundred, Virginia
Zp57G TIL hip-hop legend and pioneer, Nas, wrote the lyrics for Will Smith’s “Gettin Jiggy Wit It”