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TIL Rolex advertisements always photograph their watches at 10:10:31, and if the clock has a calendar, the date is always Monday 28th.

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69458 TIL film composer John Williams is the most Oscar-nominated living person, with 54 nominations. He is also the first person to be nominated in seven consecutive decades.
KOOR4 TIL Abraham is not the only biblical figure who was ordered to sacrifice their child to God; Jephthah of the Book of Judges offers to sacrifice his daughter, and unlike Abraham it is left ambiguous whether he spared her or not
jrnM TIL that ‘I before E except after C’ has 923 exceptions, 21 times the number of rules which follow it
1aByW TIL that banknotes were invented by Chinese in the 6th century for replacing coins as burial money. They started using it as currency in 812. The oldest conserved banknote is called "Kuan", made of mulberry tree bark, and dates from 1375.
OXJ4 TIL Stephen Colbert’s father and two older brothers died in a plane crash because the cockpit crew became distracted from talking while landing the plane. A few years later, the FAA created the ‘Sterile Cockpit Rule,’ prohibiting staff from engaging in non-essential conversation once below 10,000 ft