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TIL that Eminem watched his daughter, Hailie, get crowned homecoming queen from an empty classroom in the school because he didn’t want to take the attention away from her.

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168W8 TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims
yVrLp TIL that a popular slang in French for having your period is "Les Anglais ont debarqué", or, "The English have landed".
v8mx TIL that Dan Castellaneta sang ’S-M-R-T’ by accident in Homer Simpsons’ “I am so smart” song. The writers kept it in because they found it so much funnier and like something Homer would actually do.
KvLR TIL Dr. Kelsey, despite immense pressure from pharmaceutical companies, decided not to approve thalidomide for morning sickness in the U.S., saving a whole generation of children from death and deformities
EgkEp TIL in 2002, two men were indicted for pay phone fraud and accused of leasing 24 pay phone lines from Pacific Bell, routing 23 of the lines to an empty office, and then hooking the lines up to an auto-dialer which called over a million 1-800 numbers whereupon each call could earn about 24 cents.