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TIL Eton College - one of the most expensive schools in Britain - was originally founded to provide free education to poor boys

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r7No TIL Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that Satan and his demons were cast down to earth from heaven after October 1, 1914, at which point the end times began.
X0bnR TIL Wichita Lineman is an unfinished song written by Jimmy Webb. Country Music artist Glen Campbell recorded the song anyways based on an unfinished demo from Webb.
9wn7 TIL that Grace Kelly became close friends with dancer Josephine Baker after Kelly stormed out of a nightclub in NYC that Baker was denied entry because she was black.
oeQA TIL that there is a hanging display in Chicago of 58,226 dog tags of every American soldier killed in Vietnam.
Kpd9 TIL The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery EXCEPT as a form of punishment for crimes