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TIL of the FFF system of units. For example, the speed of light is 1.8026 megafurlongs per microfortnight.

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xO5D TIL intelligence and physical attractiveness are as highly correlated as intelligence and education
gM44b TIL the musician Prince played all 27 instruments on his debut album
6O8m TIL: JFK said this: ’… I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril.“ (and much more), in a speech given to the, American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961.
yNxM TIL Maynard James Keenan from Tool once “spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience” when the band learned at the last minute that the venue belonged to L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology.
6EnGm TIL When Nigeria gained its independence from Britain in 1960, it was in the main boardroom of the newly constructed Federal Palace Hotel that Nigeria's independence declaration was signed. This boardroom is now one of the main features of the hotel's casino