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TIL that Brenda Song turned down Harvard University (at 15) to play London Tipton in ‘The Suite Life of Zack and Cody’

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69mOJ TIL that one of the smallest living things, a bacterium named Pelagibacter ubique, is so common in the ocean that their total biomass(weight of all individuals of a species together) exceeds all fish in those oceans.
4XGoJ TIL early sections of San Francisco were built upon ships abandoned by prospectors during the California Gold Rush. Many were intentionally run aground to become bars and hotels. Now, hundreds of wooden ships lay beneath the city streets and a portion of their subway goes through the hull of one.
7R0L TIL when John Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI in the streets of Chicago, pedestrians dabbed their handkerchiefs in his blood for souvenirs.
0dEY1 TIL the Roman Emperor Tiberius would execute boys whose sexual company he had grown tired of by having them thrown from a cliff into the sea while he watched. Some were tortured before being executed, and if they survived the fall, men waiting would break their bones with oars and boathooks.
XEjWQ TIL that Allspice is not, in fact, all the spices mixed together, but rather a type of sun-dried Central American berry.