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TIL Ella Fitzgerald forgot a lyrics of the song she’s singing, but won a Grammy for her performance of improvising.

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OoXB7 TIL of Horse Diving, an attraction that was popular in the mid-1880s, in which a horse would dive into a pool of water, sometimes from as high as 60 feet
8aPPP TIL Sudan has the most Pyramids in any country with over 350 found so far.
L7m TIL Michael Jackson composed music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) but was left uncredited because of child sex abuse scandal
n91o TIL that due to a compressed air leak, a worker in a subway tunnel under New York City’s East River was blown out of the tunnel, through the mud at the bottom of the river, up through the water, and 25 feet or so into the air. He received no serious injury.
WMjL TIL the US goverment set a bunch of beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. In the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink