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TIL the word "paparazzi" originated from a character name in the 1960 Italian film "La Dolce Vita."

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ne1XW TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to space walk, became in June 2020 the only person to have visited both space and the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
78gOb TIL in 1971 Congress passed a bill for a national daycare system but it was vetoed by then President Nixon
DQB6p TIL journalist Dan Rather was fired after reporting that Bush did not finish his time at the Air National Guard using inauthentic documents as evidence
P1JBL TIL Pumpkin Spice contains no pumpkin, but is generally a blend of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and sometimes allspice.
5Ym8P TIL the highest-ranking Billboard 200 death metal album of all time is from the virtual band Dethklok from the show Metalocalpyse. Frontman and co-creator Brendan Small performs the vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboard, and bass in recordings; in the show he voices most of the main characters.