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TIL the word “mortgage” comes from French - it means “pledge to the death.”

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VAGp TIL There has not been one substantiated claim that a child has been killed or seriously injured by poisoned candy picked up while Trick-or-Treating
4krnN TIL Astrologers do not agree on when the Age of Aquarius will start or even if it has already started
nWGk7 TIL That the reason most people did not smile in old photographs was due to long exposure times, ranging anywhere from 20 seconds to 20 mins the subjects had to hold perfectly still.
JY55B TIL that ex KGB and President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, died in Cleveland, Ohio
M56a TIL: 70,000 people died during the 2003 heatwave in Europe.