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TIL that Armageddon is a real place in Israel. Its "mountain Megiddo, that was misspelled in Greek translation". So everyone can visit Armageddon

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nplo TIL Ripley’s Believe It or Not was researched by a man who spent ten hours a day, six days a week in the New York Public Library for 52 years, researching more than 350,000 books during his decades of work for Believe it or Not.
0wL0v TIL Cliff Edwards/Ukulele Ike, known for popularising the song Singin' in the Rain and voicing Jiminy Cricket, died penniless following three divorces and struggles with gambling and drinking. His unclaimed body went to the UCLA medical school until it was bought by Disney and given a proper burial.
QNrge TIL there is still one actor from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz alive, Caren Marsh Doll, who was Judy Garland's stand-in, and it is in fact her feet seen in the film when Dorothy taps the heels of the slippers together. Caren is 105 years old.
Wwx4 TIL that during the Civil War, Abe let wealthy men pay 300 dollars to avoid the draft. This led to the NYC riots, “the largest civil insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself.”
4XxK6 TIL that electric toothbrushes were originally intended to help people with limited motor skills