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TIL When Prince changed his name to a symbol, Warner Bros sent out floppy disks to major news outlets containing the digital rendition

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evln TIL: In the Victorian Era, Doctors Prescribed Beards to Help Keep Men Healthy
6EYVZ TIL that American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was related to 12 other U.S. presidents. This total constitutes over 25% of U.S. presidents. He was also related to Winston Churchill, Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Confederate General Robert E Lee.
r18e TIL in 1994, a man walked into a Washington middle school and killed his former teacher. 11 years later, the killer won $250,000 from the school district after it was revealed that the teacher sexually abused him.
LGbv TIL, Ozzy Osborne had his genome sequenced to better understand how he’s still alive after years of hard drug and alcohol abuse. “There’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why”.
xVJZ0 TIL that 11 teenagers die from texting and driving EVERY SINGLE DAY.