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TIL Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of “The Fresh Prince.”

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mx16Y TIL: Shortly after Charles Manson was arrested he wrote to one of the "Manson Family" members from jail asking her to assassinate President Ford. She approached Ford and pointed a gun at his face but was tackled to the ground by secret service agents after her gun misfired.
woDbE TIL Cotard’s Syndrome (AKA; Walking Corpse Syndrome or Cotard Delusion) is a condition where someone believes that they have already died.
xVpk TIL that when Niagara Falls stopped flowing on its own in 1848, The Maid of the Mist’s owner used explosives to blast out troublesome rocks that had endangered the boats.
N7rA1 TIL that the fictional town of Bikini Bottom from the show SpongeBob Square Pants is shown in the series to be underneath a real place called Bikini Atoll; a former nuclear test site that is still uninhabitable today.
yVNb8 TIL former UK Prime Minister John Major's dad was a vaudeville performer and garden gnome salesman, among a few other things