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TIL that John Krasinski and B. J. Novak, who respectively played Jim and Ryan from the US version of The Office, were high school classmates.

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y7Mp TIL: When General Lee met with his adversary, Grant, to surrender at Appomattox CH. Lee insisted upon his soldiers rights to keep their horses if they had one. Grant agreed understanding that if a former soldier was to return to the farm he had left, he’d need a horse to put the next crop in with.
d8B6d TIL: Trix was originally just round balls but changed to the shapes most people know in 1991 before changing back to their original balls in 2007. In 2018 they brought back the shapes again.
gr9GL TIL in the wake of 9/11, there were more antisemitic hate attacks than anti-Muslim attacks.
v1xer TIL that a lady fell from an airplane flying at 10,000+ meters (about 33,000 ft) and survived.
R7Y96 TIL of the Zong Massacre. In 1781, a British slave ship threw 130 chained African slaves overboard and claimed compensation under the ship's insurance. They falsely blamed the act on water shortage and lost their case.