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YpD7v TIL a porn company spent $8,000,000 producing a porno parody of Pirates of the Caribbean
7rmaL TIL Californian Native Americans used the poison oak to cure ringworm.
grop4 TIL former The Cult and Guns n' Roses' Matt Sorum started his professional career as the drummer of Tori Amos' first band, Y Kant Tori Read, in 1988.
m1XDY TIL DST was conceptualized by Ben Franklin in a satire piece about saving money on candles, proposed in the 1890's by and entomologist wanting more daylight to bug-hunt, implimented in WWI as an energy saving measure, and is now used to provide workers with more daylight.
6pr8 TIL that payed, a common misspelling of paid, is an actual word that means an act of sealing the deck or seams of wooden ships with pitch to prevent water leakage. This makes it an atomic typo(link in comments)