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TIL before alarm clocks, there was a a profession called a knocker-upper who would go around and knock on your door until you awoke.

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wLBJ1 TIL In 2006, Dustin Diamond asked listeners of Howard Stern's show to purchase a T-shirt reading "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house" (spelling "Screech" with an extra E for copyright reasons), hoping to sell 30,000 shirts in order to raise $250,000 and avoid foreclosure on his house
wLYWo TIL that technically there is no city named Tokyo. Tokyo is a prefecture, something like a state, and not a city. Also, there is no city named Tokyo inside of Tokyo Prefecture.
WkrVo TIL Until the 1990s, the Sun was the only star whose surface had been resolved
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