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TIL the Ottoman Empire was still in existence the last time the Cubs won the world series.

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e0wx6 TIL Manga is so popular in Japan that the country uses more paper for printing Manga than toilet paper.
YpQBG TIL Vincent Van Gogh may not have killed himself, but may have been accidentally shot by two boys and instead he covered up for them by claiming that it was suicide so they would not get in trouble.
b9wj TIL the May 5, 1991 “Calvin and Hobbes” strip criticized the naming of The Big Bang as not evocative of the wonders behind it, and coined “Horrendous Space Kablooie,” an alternative that achieved some informal popularity among scientists and was often shortened to “the HSK.”
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