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TIL that Kelly Clarkson didn't want to win American Idol because the winner was contractually bound to make a musical rom com.

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7r6LM TIL a Colorado man sued Arby's over one of their urinals allegedly burning his testicles
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7rbKr TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
OKl4 TIL of a condition called ‘dactylolysis spontanea’, where a person’s toe just randomly falls off, and doctors have no idea why it happens
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