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TIL "Jimmy cracked corn and I don't care" is actually about a slave who started drinking his masters whisky after he was killed being bucked from a horse.

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KYwnE TIL of the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Anglo-Saxons caught a Viking Raider force before the Vikings could get back to their boats and annihilated them.
KOblE TIL that in 1995, Isaac Asimov received a letter congratulating him on an accidental prediction of alpha-particle RAM errors in one of his 1950s novel “Caves of Steel”.
W7Nj4 TIL Leonard Stogel, a record producer from California, perished in the American Airlines 191 crash in 1979, 17 years after he lost both of his parents in a previous American Airlines crash in 1962.
JnRv TIL That John F Kennedy’s sister Rosemary Kennedy, who allegedly had a low IQ, was secretly lobotomized by her father and left permanently disabled, living for another 63 years hidden from the public
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