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TIL Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time" was originally written for TLC

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6oZX TIL that, Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier from World War II, never surrendered when the war ended, and continued to fight in the Philippines till 1974, when a student found his former CO and got him to convince Onoda to surrender.
JR91 TIL that Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs sacrificed money and stayed in college for four years instead of going directly to the NBA because in her last days, his dying mother made him promise to graduate college with a degree.
Zppmv TIL 1941 after a meteor shower two Canadian Inuit announced they were Jesus and God and convinced people to kill their sled dogs since people will soon be able to fly. 9 people ended up losing their lives as a result of the community spread insanity.
Lpx0 TIL the Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1nKd TIL that in 2012 the Brighton, CO police department swore in their youngest officer, a 12 year old boy with terminal cancer that had dreamed of becoming a cop.