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TIL A church in Sri Lanka accidentally printed the lyrics to Tupac's 'Hail Mary' Instead of the Prayer

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LKlp TIL the inventor of the glow stick didn’t know glow sticks were used for parties until 2013
8aPeX TIL in 2000, author J.K. Rowling gave her father the first edition of 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' for Father's Day and signed it: "Lots of love from your first born." Three years later, he sold it for £27,500.
8aWKP TIL Thomas Young, a brilliant polymath, is known as "The Last Man Who Knew Everything." Some of his contributions include discovering the wave theory of light, describing elasticity, inventing the tuning method of musical instruments and many more....
5V8w9 TIL that the Roman Emperor Vespasian once levied a tax on urine—the collected urine from public urinals was used in processes like leather tanning and laundering. When questioned about the nature of this revenue, Vespasian famously replied, "Pecunia non olet," meaning “money does not stink.”
RlBQ TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was forced to resign for publicly promoting sex education about masturbation as a means to reduce teen pregnancy