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TIL more than a third of divorce filings contained the word Facebook

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77BX TIL 90% of Lighting Strike victims survive.
16QB8 TIL there is a soccer player with the surname Amaluzor
epk7g TIL why you call the thing you type with a "keyboard": until 1846 the word exclusively referred to a part of a musical instrument. That year inventor Royal Earl House was issued a patent for a printing telegraph machine fitted with a literal piano keyboard with keys corresponding to letters.
ovyE TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of “Winnie the Pooh,” calls children who are in hospital to talk to them in character
GAWZ4 TIL that in the original mythology, Pazuzu, the ancient Akkadian demon made famous by the movie 'The Exorcist' was himself an exorcist