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TIL “Jim Wilson” is the American Airlines code for coffin or cadaver shipments

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x6EP7 TIL: The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) not only issues ratings to video games based on their content, but also enforces advertising guidelines adopted by the video game industry
9Me7 TIL Italian police told Amanda Knox she was HIV positive, had her make a list of everyone she’d slept with, leaked it to the press, then said the test was a “mistake.”
BYyx TIL Nicolas Cage had magic mushrooms with his cat, Lewis. Seeing Lewis eating the shrooms, Cage responded, “What the heck, I better do it with him.” Cage recalls laying in bed for hours and staring at Lewis, as Lewis stared back. Cage concluded sagely, “and I had no doubt that he was my brother.”
yQLyJ TiL: That the first well documented and public case of Alina Abduction, “The abduction of Betty and Barney Hill”, took place right near me in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
kJLxg TIL that much of the sound you hear on sports on TV is actually fake and that for example the sounds you hear in horse racing TV coverage is really sampled from a slowed-down buffalo charge.