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TIL that there was a Weezer cruise in 2012 and 2014. In addition to performing, they hosted game nights, took day excursions with people and had prom.

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gMPvW TIL the phrase “The First World War” was used as early as 1918, by a journalist who felt it would not be the last.
o7J7 TIL The Beatles were considering to name their 1969 album Everest and even flying to the Himalayas to shoot the cover photo. Instead, they named it Abbey Road and shot the cover photo in front of the studio.
ZL5v TIL that in July of 2015, Mitchelle Blair received a life sentence without possibility for parole after torturing and murdering two of her four children, ages 9 and 13, based on claims from her youngest child that the two had molested him. She then stored their bodies in her home freezer.
xVMMb TIL that Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed musician John Lennon, is still alive and is up for parole for the 11th time.
LQjVV TIL that a pharmacy is more than 700 years old. Raeapteek (Talllinn, Estonia) was founded before 1422. The Burchart family owned it for 325 years, with ten generations of sons named Johann running it. The family sold the pharmacy in 1911 after Johann X Burchart died after being too sick to run it.