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TIL that "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers", two of America's most iconic advice columnists, were identical twin sisters born Pauline Esther and Esther Pauline Friedman, respectively.

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eBD5 TIL That ever since playing Shaggy Rogers in 2002, Matthew Lillard has been voicing Shaggy in the animated Scooby Doo.
9YKn6 TIL Evariste Galois, genius French mathematician, felt certain he would die the next day in a duel he had been challenged to over a woman and stayed up all night solving a problem that had tormented mathematicians for centuries. He died the next day at 21 but his work that night endures still today.
a8xkL TIL There is a Mineral called Lonsdaleite which is 58% harder than conventional Diamonds
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GYNdj TIL Rosemary Kennedy was developmentally disabled and lashed out regularly. She was given a lobotomy and asked to sing 'God Bless America'. They continued cutting away deeper into her brain until her singing became incoherent, then stopped.