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TIL that Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, of TLC, was in a car accident that killed a young boy, Bayron Lopez. She mourned the boy and felt that death “made a mistake” due to their similar last names and it was her that was supposed to die. Two weeks later she died in another car accident.

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XBYj TIL A woman was arrested for possession and delivery of 31.5 grams of cocaine, 126 grams of high-grade marijuana, 29 tablets of Ecstasy, an undisclosed amount of methamphetamine and 60 hits of LSD. She is also the 19-year-old daughter of a United States DEA Special Agent.
7rQvZ TIL Fragging was a deliberate attempt to kill unpopular officers by soldiers throwing their own grenade at them.
8eBEZ TIL almost 2/3 (61%) of WW2 American servicemen were draftees instead of volunteers
wAd7 TIL: When Simon and Garfunkel first began performing, their music was considered a joke. The words “Hello darkness, my old friend” were enough to cause an audience to break out in laughter.
Z8xOp TIL there is a Mickey Mouse shaped solar farm at Disney World, Florida