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TIL that the word doppelganger, commonly used to refer to someone’s look-alike, is actually a German word meaning “double-walker” referring to paranormal duplicates of a real person.

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wlv1 TIL that the last Roman ruler of Britain, Magnus Maximus, married the daughter of a Welsh leader, thereby becoming the ancestor of several Welsh dynasties and kings up to 500 years later.
N7vQe TIL Detroit holds the record for the city with the most rejected bids to host the Olympics.
Egrod TIL that Mick Jagger's first TV appearance had nothing to do with music but was showing him in an educational spot about mountain climbing, together with his father who was a physical education teacher (and helped popularise basketball in Britain).
W7dZ4 TIL Howard Hughes was a chronic insomniac who wanted to watch movies on TV when most people were asleep, but when he first arrived in Las Vegas he discovered that it had no all-night TV stations. So he purchased a local station in 1967 and turned it into a 24/7 channel.
XQWj TIL that an $80 worth of coca leaves, from a Colombian peasant, can sell for $800 as coca paste, $2,147 as pure cocaine in Colombian ports, $34,000 just over the US border, and $120,000 on the streets of New York.