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TIL Kim il-Sung was raised in a family of Presbyterian Christians

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yVv1v TIL that instead of using his Make-A-Wish for something for himself, 13-Year-old Abraham Olagbegi used his wish to feed the homeless in his neighborhood for a year
oRlNA TIL about "The Genius Killer," Edward H. Rulloff, a serial killer with a genius-level intellect whose brain is on display at Cornell University. His last words were, "Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner."
jNyXR TIL during WWII a Japanese submarine attacked coastal targets near Ellwood and Santa Barbara, California. The Steven Spielberg film, 1941, is partly based on this incident.
l7MJa TIL the song Jeremy by Pearl Jam is a real story about Jeremy Wade Delle who committed suicide in front of his class on January 8, 1991. His death wasn't more than a paragraph in local news Eddie Vedder said that he felt "the need to take that small article and to give it more importance."
D1m8P TIL "Begging the question" does not mean "Raising the question", but is a common logical fallacy, where the premises of an argument already assume the conclusion to be true, for example, "My experience of reality must be true, because what I see, hear, smell, and touch feels so real."