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TIL In 2022 "Seven" was the 754th most popular boys name.

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b9okZ TIL that 70% of the world production of maple syrup is from the Province of Quebec.
X0DMD TIL about Wallace "Wally" Bowers. Struggling to support four kids and a wife dying of cancer, he picked up additional weekend work for a logging company. He was killed during the eruption of Mount St. Helens of May 1980. His wife died three months later from her illness.
5Ga9 TIL a Pan-Am flight crashed in the Syrian desert, killing fourteen passengers. Two crew survived - one of the two was the co-pilot, named Gene Roddenberry. He was so disturbed by the crash that he quit to become a writer, and shortly after he created Star Trek.
LnY0 TIL before the 1800s, people had “first” and “second sleep”. They would sleep 3-4 hours, wake up for 2-3 hours to do some type of activity, then go back to sleep until morning.
lQ8r TIL Bob Ross painted a grayscale landscape after meeting a colorblind man who thought he would never be able to paint