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TIL that titular typing tutor of 80s PC program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was the creation of one of the software developers, who sought to present a "friendly face" for a generation of very new and very wary computer users. Mavis was inspired by a Haitian-born woman named Renee L’Esperance.

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WP5o TIL A man faked his death to make his wife realise how much she missed him. He left his clothes on the beach and placed an anonymous call to police to say he’d just seen a naked man walk into the sea. But he was soon discovered and his wife filed for divorce after learning about the prank.
QNdNX TIL the U.S. Air Force is the world's largest air force, while the U.S. Navy is the world's second largest air force
wLva7 TIL A language typically can’t survive past 8,000 or 9,000 years, since it’s common for languages to mix and get replaced by other more influential languages or morph into new ones altogether.
gMONb TIL there are catfish in France which beach themselves in order to eat pigeons
GAN4G TIL the sun takes 225m Earth years to make one full orbit around the centre of The Milky Way. This is called the galactic year.