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TIL Ted Lasso was an NBC ad campaign 7 years before the series.

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ZlLY TIL Wellington R. Burt, 1831-1919, did not leave his $100,000,000 estate to his children. His will had a “spite clause” which specified to wait until all his children and 21 years after his last grandchild while he was still alive had died. The estate was settled in 2011.
e0aZn TIL that Rosalind Franklin discovered the double-helix structure of DNA while James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins are credited and shared the Nobel Prize in 1962.
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