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TIL about the SPCSCPG, or "Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters 'George'", originally started as a joke but eventually had over 30,000 members.

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LQDoZ TIL Chris Farley spent his last night with a hooker named Heidi. She could hear his breathing trouble after he collapsed 10 feet from the door. He asked "Don't leave me." but she left after taking a photo of him (to sell likely)
VBQYD TIL Abraham Lincoln owned a patent for inventing a device that helped lift river boats over obstructions
R78Y7 TIL that tipping in America started so restaurant owners wouldn't have to pay black workers.
Y4wW TIL in the last 25 years, while playing at night and at home, West Coast football teams have beaten East Coast football teams 70 percent of the time. The reason? Circadian Rhythm.
nerx7 TIL that Jonathan James was only 15 when he hacked into the systems of NASA and the United States Department of Defense in June 1999 . Since he was a juvenile, he was charged with 2 counts of “juvenile delinquency” placed under a 6 month home arrest and asked to write apology letters to NASA and DOD