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TIL that people who browse the internet are called internauts

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xVdoD TIL of Theodore Hall, among the youngest Manhattan Project scientists. Finished high school at 14, graduated from Harvard at 18, and recruited for the nuclear program at 19. Fifty years later, near death, he admitted to having been a Soviet informant the entire time.
DZxr TIL A study at UT Austin determined that accepting a job below one’s skill level can adversely affect future employment prospects
AN194 TIL that the Galapagos penguin, a penguin endemic to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, is the only penguin found north of the equator
KY1vB TIL that in 1996 Caribbean authorities shot at a plane that Jimmy Buffet and Bono were on suspecting it was carrying drugs. Jimmy buffet later went on to write a song called Jamaica Mistaica and put it on his 1996 album Banana Wind.
m15wv TIL Dr. Bronner left Germany in 1929 fearing the rise of Nazis but his parents refused. His last contact with them was in the form of a censored postcard saying, "You were right. —Your loving father."