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TIL Michael Jackson faced heavy backlash from fellow Jehovah’s Witnesses for the Thriller video and had to add a disclaimer to the beginning that assured he was not a believer in the occult.

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Zpv6o TIL that, during a battle in the French and Indian War, George Washington survived having had two horses shot from under him and four bullets piercing his coat.
4XlEX TIL Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were in the same acting class and were voted by classmates as “The Least Likely to Succeed.”
VEZp TIL a bank robber named “Pretty Boy” Floyd was known for destroying mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
01aR TIL the creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, based the idea of a character that would never grow up on his older brother who died the day before his 14th birthday, thus remaining a boy forever in his mother’s mind.
PYy7Z TIL of "Number 16," the oldest known spider. She was a wild trapdoor spider who lived in an Australian burrow. She was studied by researchers from 1973 until 2016, when her burrow was found damaged and empty, likely due to a parasitic wasp attack. She was 43 years old.