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TIL A popular Reddit post will earn more viewers than CNN gets in an entire week…including primetime.

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W77KA TIL between the time he murdered his wife and son and the time he killed himself, pro wrestler Chris Benoit attempted to reschedule his flight from Atlanta to Texas so he could perform at that weekend's WWE pay-per-view, where he was scheduled to face CM Punk for the ECW Championship.
xAN7 TIL launching a nuclear weapon within the City of Chicago is punishable by up to 30 days’ imprisonment and a $1,000 fine [x-post from /r/Chicago]
4Bvw TIL Fritz Joubert Duquesne lost his family and farm in the Anglo-Boer War, became a German Spy and Traveled the world under different identities till finally he had his revenge on the British Field Marshal that gave the order.
mv1P TIL that Liv Tyler was cast for the music video of Aerosmith’s “Crazy” without the video producers knowing that her father was in the band.
M7jem TIL Thomas Jefferson wanted to adopt the metric system in the United States, but pirates of the Caribbean hijacked its adoption