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TIL taser is an acronym (Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle)

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WAxY TIL That The US Beat China In A World Math Championship For The First Time In Twenty Years Last Year
j6yQN TIL 12-year-old Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Indian Ocean that killed her mom & 151 others. She had little swimming experience & no life vest. So she clung to a piece of the wreckage & floated in heavy seas for over 9 hours, much of it in darkness, before being rescued.
yQOQe TIL of Gramercy Park, a private park in NYC for neighboring residents that requires a $350 key and a $7500 annual fee to enter.
eGoL TIL of “Shifting Baseline Syndrome”, where each generation uses previous reference points as baselines despite those points representing significant changes from even earlier states. Each generation defines the “natural” state differently, and large changes over time often go unnoticed.
a867b TIL that China's national anthem is taken from a 1935 film called Children of Troubled Times.