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TIL Auntie Anne's pretzels started in Pennsylvania, and is a woman run company.

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eped4 TIL that during the peak years of her career, Marilyn Monroe was enrolled in correspondence art classes trying to learn to draw
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9YoGp TIL that an 18 year old girl was convinced by a boy she met online, who claimed to be a multi-millionaire, to kill her best friend. She then convinced 4 others to help her murder her best friend to split a $9 million dollar prize.
LVb0 TIL there is a punctuation mark that exists for the purpose of expressing irony.
NXnO8 TIL that Norman Rockwell’s painting 'Thanksgiving picture' (or 'I'll be home for Christmas') was actually called 'Freedom from Want'. Part of his 'Four Freedoms' series, it was inspired by a speech of FDR. It featured members of his own family as well as their cook who was was serving the turkey.