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TIL a “factoid” is different than a “fact” - a factoid is a piece of information that is unsupported, completely out of context, or simply untrue but presented as a fact anyway

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rMvo TIL 20 year old Ryan Holle was sentenced to life without parole for lending his car to a friend, who then murdered an 18 year old girl.
nWLOP TIL if you lose a body part, doctors can tuck it under the skin so it can create tissue and maintain a blood supply
Y7vgB TIL that each year, 22,000 pounds of dust from the Sahara Desert is carried by air currents to the Amazon Rainforest where it is an important source of phosphorus for tropical plant
N9wJ TIL the same guy invented Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust Pizza, McDonald’s McGriddles and Dollar Menu, and the Smashburger restaurant chain
VKb4 TIL - With 25 billion hours (2.85 million years) of total game play, people have played Call of Duty for longer than the course of human existence.