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TIL that coins dating back to ancient Roman times have been found across the US indicating they arrived before Columbus

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GZkN TIL that George RR Martin’s A Storm of Swords lost the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. His response? “Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don’t have readers like these.”
drQK TIL that Thomas Edison taught his second wife Morse code so they could communicate in secret by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was around
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P1xBn TIL that Kentucky Bluegrass, a common grass planted in suburban lawns in the North America, is not from Kentucky, and not even native to North America. It comes from Europe, North Asia, and Northern Africa and was imported by the Spanish Empire.
kOK97 TIL that Jamie Foxx got the stage name of Jamie when he was starting out in doing stand up comedy and found out that female comedians usually got called up first on stage to perform. By choosing a more feminine sounding name, he tricked the promoters into putting him higher in the performing order.