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TIL that Reddit is owned by the same company that operates Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker and House & Garden

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lyB1 TIL that when asked what his song “American Pie” meant, Don McLean said “It means I don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to.”
wbe7 TIL Jell-O is an especially popular food among Mormons, as the Mormon corridor region has been nicknamed “The Jell-O belt”. The food has even become the official state snack of Utah.
9xpX TIL that a man named Roger Boisjoly and his colleagues attempted to stop Challenger from lifting off into space knowing that a disaster would happen, but ultimately failed.
xRW0 TIL that actor Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia) was unsure of where he was born. Sources claim it was either Connemara, Ireland or Leeds, England. He had a birth certificate from both countries.
a5BM TIL that in 1961, a 27 year old Soviet doctor stationed at the South Pole performed a self-appendectomy using a mirror. He fully recovered.