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TIL that New York is the empire state. Gives new meaning to the Empire State Building, lol

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mxOgE TIL cocktails became popular during Prohibition as juices were added to bootleg liquor to disguise the taste of ingredients like dead rat and wood tar
VMYA8 TIL after the success of ‘Shaun of the Dead’, Simon Pegg was asked if would he would leave England for Hollywood. He replied, “It’s not like we’re going to go away and do, I don’t know, Mission: Impossible III.” Two years later, he was cast as Benji in Mission Impossible III
690n8 TIL that I must quit listening to music
j6GRj TIL of the 2022 Caribbean diving disaster where a group of five divers working for the Paria Fuel Trading Company were sucked into a pipeline from a hyperbaric chamber. One diver managed to crawl to safety, but the other four were left to die, with no attempt being made to rescue them
wXl1 TIL that Dell OptiPlex PCs sold from 2002 to 2005 had a failure rate of 97% over a three-year period according to a Dell study. They were subsequently sued over this matter because employees knew they were likely to break.