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TIL Brigham Young, governor of the Utah Territory from 1851 to 1858, had a granddaughter who lived until 2004.

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bv4p TIL most of the Disney producers had no faith in The Lion King, saying, “I don’t know who is going to want to watch that one.”
x6Kwg TIL that the Grey Cup, the championship game of the Canadian football league, has been going on longer than the American NFL has been in existence.
8OwG TIL sixty years ago, 10–20% of the Chinese population was short-sighted. Today, up to 90% of teenagers and young adults are.
QJ149 TIL that Stalin would have his photos retouched to remove people he didn’t like
0ddeA TIL during the Pascal-B subterranean nuclear test in 1957, a 2000lbs steel plate cap was thrown into the atmosphere at 150,000 miles per hour