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TIL in 1994, R&B singer R Kelly married fellow R&B singer Aaliyah when she was only 15 years old. The marriage was annulled later that year and they both agreed to never speak of it again.

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ZyJ4 TIL Lego minifigures have a hole on top of the head in case any kids got one of the heads stuck on their throat. That way they would be able to keep breathing.
neDwo TIL that when Thomas Edison was on his death bed, Henry Ford reportedly made an odd request for his ailing friend and asked Edison's son Charles to collect Edison's last breath and later 8 test tubes were discovered apparently with 'his last breath'.
kpWB TIL in 2012 the NYPD declared a couple to be “professional agitators” because they filmed videos of police conducting stop-and-frisks and uploaded them to YouTube. Cops posted their mugshots in a stationhouse and warned officers to be on guard against them.
ANMZB TIL that before he wrote The Music Man in 1957, Meredith Willson wrote It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas for Perry Como six years prior
e0B64 TIL that Generation Y is making 20% less than Baby Boomers were at the same age