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TIL passerbyers isn't a word

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gG5L TIL that Annie Dookhan, a crime lab chemist in MA, intentionally mishandled thousands of samples. As a result, more than 20,000 convictions had to be dropped en masse.
gM607 TIL that if it were not for the vacuum in space, the roaring of the sun - which would equate to roughly 100 decibels (the equivalent to a chainsaw's volume in close proximity) - would leave all us Earthlings deaf within the course of a day.
x67Rk TIL that the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," sung by Timon and Pumbaa in the original Lion King, led to a major lawsuit. Originally composed by Solomon Linda in 1939, his family won a settlement for royalties in 2006 worth $1.6 million.
8e1xK TIL By tradition, character deaths in ancient greek theater almost never happened on stage. No matter the importance of the character, deaths almost always occured off stage and announced via messenger, with the body only showed later
VM70p TIL the earliest form of the odometer was invented in Ancient Greece, probably around the time of Alexander the Great, and Ancient China in the first century