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TIL As a final bit of humor, Leslie Nielsen chose “Let ‘er rip” as his epitaph.

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JY9G1 TIL people were still using the phrase 'abracadabra' in the late 1600s to try to ward off the plague in London
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gMG89 TIL that the position of "Commander in Chief, United States Fleet" was formerly given the acronym CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"). This was changed in 1941 after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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8aV1X TIL that former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il secretly studied English on the small island of Malta in the 1970s . His English teacher, Prof. Daniel Massa, said that he used to become irritable when hungry, especially when lessons overstepped their time limit and impinged on his lunch break.