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TIL Stephen Colbert is deaf in his right ear, lost his parents and two siblings to an airliner crash in 1974, used to play Dungeons and Dragons, and briefly fronted a Rolling Stones cover band.

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epRK4 TIL that for over fifty years, Coca-Cola tried to control the use of the term "cola". Despite their threats to other businesses and numerous lawsuits, by 1944, courts had determined "cola" was a generic term and denied Coca-Cola's monopoly.
xVwDD TIL after their characters unsuccessfully flirted in Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern actually dated and got engaged
R5RgQ TIL that there are some people who suffer from a condition where they are unable to sleep for months on end or develop near-permanent insomnia, leading to poor memory, coordination, hallucinations, delirium, exhaustion and eventually death.
6eYY TIL Osama bin Laden came within minutes of killing Bill Clinton
Wb0L TIL NASA has confirmed Earth has a space-time vortex. It was measured by 4 near perfect gyroscopes in orbit.