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TIL that the first known literary usage of OMG was in a letter written to Winston Churchill in 1917

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PYMPZ TIL The Amityville Horror is an admitted hoax, confessed to by the lawyer that assisted in fabricating the story; The motive for which, was to gain a new trial for his client Butch DeFeo (the man who murdered his family whilst they slept in the house)
w4xo TIL that Astronaut John Glenn became the oldest person in space at 77 after “lobbying NASA for two years to fly as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies”.
kJxAg TIL The Yellowstone National Park is on top of a caldera, which is a volcano that explodes so powerfully and immediately that everything around falls into the hole created, thus you are vacationing inside the top of volcano, but it looks flat and not like a "normal" shield volcano.
bY4Z TIL the current SNL announcer is 96 years old
VPy4 TIL when Prince attended the premiere of the Bourne Ultimatum in London, Matt Damon asked him, “So you live in Minnesota? I hear you live in Minnesota.” Prince replied, “I live inside my own heart, Matt Damon.”