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TIL Michael Jackson had over 1,000 unreleased songs on a harddrive at home which Sony bought for 250 Million after he died.

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5YQnP TIL That the Allies secretly built two entire portable harbors in the UK and towed them across the English Channel right after D-Day to attach to the just-captured beachheads. One was damaged in a storm. The other landed over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies.
E1lx0 TIL there was a lengthy storyline on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" (traditionally a quasi-realistic down to Earth series) where a character was possessed by Satan and tried to bring about the ruination of the Church.
V4B8 TIL The BEANO T-13 hand grenade was an experimental hand grenade developed by the OSS in the later years of WWII. The designers believed that by emulating the size and weight of a baseball, any American young man should be able to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance.
vv7R TIL - That many people who get new, often free home’s through “Extreme Home Makeover” end up taking out second mortgages they can’t afford, and then lose their home.
v1xnL TIL "Big Pool" in Garden City, Kansas, built in 1922, is the world's largest outdoor concrete municipal swimming pool. It holds over two million gallons of water and is so large people can water ski on it.