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TIL Liam Neeson started acting because he thought the girl who would star next to him in his school plays was cute

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YwBB TIL A church choir had a practice session starting at 7:25pm one evening in 1950, and by 7:27pm the building exploded. No one was killed as they were all running late.
PY1gZ TIL many of the Qur'an's verses begin with a handful of seemingly random letters and simply replicated for thousands of years no one has any idea of their significance
oKrA TIL blacks were given ‘ghetto loans’, which were higher-interest subprime loans normally reserved for customers with bad credit ratings, even if they qualified for a normal loan. It found out that high-income blacks were almost twice as likely to end up with subprime mortgages as low-income whites.
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PZYe TIL of Poon Lim, a chinese sailor who survived for 133 days alone in the South Atlantic, using methods such as capturing a shark and drinking the blood from it’s liver to survive.