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TIL there are only 15 people who have won an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy, including John Legend.

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4AvN TIL in 1619 an American law required every household to grow hemp
d8N6B TIL Gustaw Herling wrote a book in 1951 entitled A World Apart about the two years he spent in the Soviet gulag, and that the book ends with letters from prominent Communists assuring westerners that these camps don't exist.
j677E TIL Pope Francis released a prog rock album
7rxmb TIL the idea for the ATM cash machine came about when its inventor, John Shepherd-Barron, took a bath after his bank branch had closed for the day and was inspired by chocolate bar vending machines
j6grp TIL that the exact same Air India 787 that recently crashed (registration VT-ANB) was flying just 25km away from MH17 when it was shot down in 2014. AI171 is the deadliest aviation incident since MH17.