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TIL John Legend used to date Osama Bin Laden's niece.

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6E6Am TIL: Science recognises Ouija Boards users are "moving the planchette involuntarily" and a when answering "yes or no questions, ouija use was significantly more accurate than guesswork, suggesting that it might draw on the unconscious mind" and the users enter a "dissociative state".
Bemx TIL: The richest 62 people in the world, have more money than the poorest 50% of the global population (3.562 billion people), combined.
Mwl0 TIL: That Samuel L. Jackson has a slight stutter. To help himself avoid stuttering he would “pretend to be people who didn’t stutter”, and used the curse word, motherf@*&%er as an affirmation word
ZpaMa TIL about India's tallest captive elephant Thechikottukavu Ramachandran, owned by Thechikottukavu devasom, a temple in the Indian state of Kerala. Thechi stands at 316 cm tall and is the largest captive elephant in India. He is fondly named Ekachatradhipathi (The Only Emperor) by his fans.
8ekKV TIL that Agatha Christie kept her final Poirot novel locked away in a bank vault for 30 years. And it's currently on free display at Cambridge University