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TIL That Bobby Farrell, a singer with the band Boney M, died on the same date and city as Rasputin, the russian mystic and holy man, who was the subject of one of Boney M's most famous song

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xVEyk TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.
4N0o TIL Tutankhamun’s parents were brother and sister, which led to the young Pharaoh having Koehler’s disease and a club foot, according to new research. This helps to explain the discovery of more than 130 walking sticks in Tutankhamun’s tomb.
ENeo TIL Philadelphia cream cheese is named for a village in upstate New York, not the famous Pennsylvania city.
wLdPW TIL that after the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.
yxkp TIL 3 scientific papers were published because of new knowledge gained about black holes in the rendering of scenes for the movie Interstellar