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TIL: The small village of Embo in the Scottish highlands declared itself independent from the UK for 1 day in 1988

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Y8yB TIL that an employee of the company hired to organize McDonald’s Monopoly game rigged it for 5 years. He also admitted to anonymously sending a $1 million game piece to St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis.
KGdB TIL The real name of the talking paperclip in Microsoft XP was Clippit, not Clippy.
k9Lg TIL that Stephen King has made large charitable donations without announcing them because he was “raised firmly to believe that if you give away money and you make a big deal of it so that everybody sees it, that’s hubris. (…) you’re not supposed to make a big deal about it.”
oBbNA TIL when Justin Beiber was 17, he guest-starred as a serial bomber and serial killer on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. One of the show's stars, Marg Helgenberger, later stated on French radio that he was 'kind of a brat' on the set of the show.
DQdWP TIL that Potassium Benzoate is a food preservative and is safe to consume, with low toxicity