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TIL Ernest Hemingway, his father, his brother, his sister and his granddaughter all committed suicide.

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7rbMZ TIL Francis Tumblety, a man suspected to be Jack the Ripper, was also arrested for being allegedly complicit in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
wLvvW TIL of the 1626 AD Explosion in Beijing, one of the largest and most lethal explosions ever, and the exact cause hasn't yet been determined. Body parts and animals rained down from the sky. Everything within 3-14 miles was utterly obliterated. The explosion was about equal to the Hiroshima bombing.
9Y4YG TIL Seth Rogan has repeatedly tried to make a movie about the 90's battle between Sega and Nintendo, but keeps getting turned down.
mmDE TIL that the company that wrote and produced Rebecca Black’s Friday is co-owned by the lead singer of Nickelback
4Ew TIL on July 30, 1978 a city in Japan decided to switch which side of the road they drove on. It took 8 hours to turn all the traffic signs around, and cost $150 million to do the entire conversion.