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TIL Johnny Cash has a younger brother that was also a country singer-songwriter named Tommy Cash, who released a single called "I Didn't Walk the Line".

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rKNe TIL: In the 1730s, a seven-year-old English girl washed up on the shores of West Africa and was adopted by her rescuers. She became the wife of a Prince and started a dynasty that extends into many of today’s Xhosa royal families.
BGor TIL American Airlines went against manufacturer recommendations and used their own maintenance procedure to save 200 man hours of labor per aircraft. This resulted in one engine of AA Flight 191 separating from the wing on takeoff and the deaths of 273 people.
b9pLa TIL, in 1948, a man wore 30-pound, 3-toed lead shoes and stomped around a Florida beach in the night. The footprints lead people to believe that a 15-foot tall penguin was roaming their lands. He kept up the prank for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later.
18xX TIL at the start of his career, writer Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a column for Sports Illustrated about a racehorse that jumped the fence and ran away, after staring at the blank piece of paper on his typewriter all morning, he typed, “The horse jumped over the f**king fence”, and left.
OoaNR TIL about Grigori Perelman the mathematician who solved the Poincare Conjecture one of the 7-millennium problems and denied the million dollar prize money as well as the fields medal. Rest of the 6 still remain unsolved.