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TIL the Nigerian prince scam is so popular in Nigeria there was a hit song praising it.

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jjen TIL in 1974 a newscaster committed suicide during a live broadcast. Her last words were “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in ‘blood and guts’, and in living color, you are going to see another first—attempted suicide.”
mmdP TIL J. Edgar Hoover had the world’s largest porn collection at the time
R7ymj TIL that lightning can't strike the same place twice is a myth. It can, and often does strike the same place repeatedly. The Empire State Building gets struck about 25 times per year
mDEO TIL Guy Fawkes is the reason guys are called “guys”
16kQ8 TIL about Jacques Tits, a French Mathematician who worked in group theory and incidence geometry, and is famous introducing the Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric in mathematics.