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TIL The Simpsons are responsible for the popularisation of the word ‘meh’.

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69XpW TIL in 2007, an adhesive company was sued for 16million for manslaughter charges as a result of structure failure that take place in the world's most expensive highway
5YO8r TIL in Michael Jackson's music video for 'Beat It' he cast 80 members of the feuding gangs, Bloods and Crips, in an attempt to foster peace between them
RDP7 TIL the word ‘you’ was once used only for two or more people, and 'thee’, 'thou’, 'thy’ etc referred to just one person.
jNARQ TIL of Thad Roberts, a former NASA intern who spent 6 years in prison for stealing 17 lbs of moon rocks. He wanted to ‘give the moon’ to a girl he liked, so they stole the rocks together, spread them across his bed, had sex on top of them, and then tried to sell them online to undercover FBI agents
ArD4 TIL of the Caterpillar Club, which is exclusive to those who have been forced to bail from an aircraft and survived thanks to a parachute.