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TIL there is a Unicode Character for ‘LOVE HOTEL’

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bEea TIL the oldest person ever was a French woman who died in 1997 at 122 years old. One of her early memories includes selling colored pencils to Vincent Van Gogh
9YyOB TIL that in 1995 NASA updated an original study by Peter N Witt on the effects of various drugs on spiders and found similar results.
oBDME TIL that Worcestershire is pronounced “wuss-stir-sure”
a8Glb TIL Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre with his character C. Auguste Dupin, who preceded Sherlock Holmes by 46 years. In Sherlock Holmes's first story, Watson directly compares Holmes to Dupin.
Wkr7L TIL that in Texas (2015) only 16% of county judges have a license to practice law and 17% had even graduated from a law school.