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TIL In a post-debacle interview after being caught lip syncing at shows, one of the members of Milli Vanilli defended himself by saying, “[Before Milli Vanilli] I was working at a McDonald’s. What would you have done?”

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VP5G TIL that people used to send Vinegar Valentines to those that they despised. These were essentially insult cards with a picture and an insulting poem that were given on Valentine’s Day.
pQvN TIL that candle flames contains millions of tiny diamonds, as they contain all four known forms of carbon.
gMgVb TIL of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Union army during the US Civil War.
vYAD TIL in a 2010 poll seventy-nine percent of Democrats said they support permitting “gay men and lesbians” to serve openly in the armed forces but only 43 percent, said they were in favor of allowing “homosexuals” to serve openly.
XpdQ TIL J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”, once confessed that he left a poisoned apple on his tutor’s desk.