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TIL that in 2007 to promote the release of Susan Boyle’s new album her team shared the hashtag #susanalbumparty. It’s should have read #SusanAlbumParty.

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wLy4Y TIL of the Crichton Leprechaun, a supposed sighting of a leprechaun in a tree in Crichton, a neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama
ADYZ4 TIL Basil Zaharoff sold the Greek government a submarine. He then told the Turks that Greece had a submarine, so they bought two. Then he told the Russians the Turks had two submarines, so they bought two as well. None of the submarines worked.
l7BVV TIL that on the old (1928-1994) flag of South Africa, the small Union Jack that was incorporated as part of the design was intentionally upside-down.
XDJr TIL a herd of bison were shipped to an island off California 90 years ago for a movie shoot and left there. The herd is still thriving, so much so they have been put on birth control.
QJ4ve TIL that the first swivel chair was invented by Thomas Jefferson, and that he sat on it when he drafted the United States Deceleration of Independence.