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TIL having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking.

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mxLQR TIL that a woman discovered from watching TV that her current house was once owned by a serial killer who used to torture women in the basement
0dmPN TIL Giovanni Villani's chronicle documenting the history of Italy from ancient times until his contemporary 14th century ominously ends mid sentence as the author was describing the effects of the black death. The author himself also died of the plague
8a0mX TIL that a jiffy is an actual unit of time and in quantum physics can be defined as the time it takes for light to travel one fermi, which is approximately the size of a nucleon
4kDma TIL the first UPC-marked item ever to be scanned at a retail checkout was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum, purchased at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974.
W7ZlL TIL that, after being disqualified from the 1953 Le Mans race, driver Duncan Hamilton found a local bar in town and got drunk. Shortly thereafter, officials ruled that he could enter. Hamilton subsequently won the race.