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TIL the Wal-Mart heirs are worth as much as bottom 41.5% of Americans.

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gMyvX TIL of Steven Bradbury's olympic gold after all of his opponents were involved in a last corner pile-up.
bD44 TIL Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) tried and failed to land the role of Luke Skywalker … so he told his friend Mark Hamill to take a shot at it
kJPG1 TIL about the "Symphony of Industrial Horns". A avant-garde rendition of The Internationale performed by Arseny Avraamov in Baku, Azerbaijan, 1922. The Symphony utilized live sounds of trains, naval vessels, factories and other industrial installations across the city as its instruments.
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