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TIL the name for Hannah Montana was originally intended to be Alexis Texas.

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Ypm9G TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, once the fattest man on Earth at 610 kg (1,340 lb), he started losing weight in 2013 and by 2017 after only 4 years he had successfully lost 542 kg (1,195 lb) and reached an healthy weight of 68 kg (150 lb), it was the biggest weight loss ever recorded
Yd9B TIL a Chinese family refused to sell their house to the goverment to build a highway, so the government road was built right up to their walls.
BGx TIL that Google Talk has a feature that translates your chat into another language in real time.
E1kY7 TIL that Bill Stone, one of the last five surviving WWI veterans, made multiple separate trips to rescue 1,000 men at Dunkirk although the first trip was "the worst experience of his life." His motto in life was "keep going." He died at age 108.
a8Qn9 TIL in the 1980s, the British rock band Gene Loves Jezebel was formed by twin brothers Michael & Jay Aston. Around 1997, they split into two bands, each with the same name due to separate US/UK naming rights. The Mountain Goats' song "Abandoned Flesh" summarizes GLJ's confusing history.