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TIL the lyrics to Dropkick Murphys' "Shipping Up to Boston" were written by folk singer Woody Guthrie (of "This Land is Your Land" fame)

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BgBmk Til that only three objects have ever been recovered from inside the great pyramid
ADGMx TIL Colin Murdoch a New Zealand pharmacist made a number of significant inventions, in particular the tranquilliser gun, the disposable hypodermic syringe and the child-proof medicine container.
GA1n5 TIL there is a farm in the middle of Tokyo's Narita airport. As the owners refused to move, the airport was built around it.
xVJOB TIL at one point, if you lived in Washington DC you could get free goldfish from the government.
nxY TIL that HeLa, the oldest human cell line used in scientific research, is derived from cervical cancer cells of a patient in 1951 and is so self-persistent that it is considered by some to be its own species.