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TIL there is an old handwriting system that is faster than typing. Masters have reached up to 280 Words per minute!

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Y7mKW TIL My 2 favorite Christmas movies (Christmas Vacation and Home Alone) were written by the same man, John Hughes (And they released only 1 year apart)
10VW TIL: Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail single-handedly around the world, never learned to swim and considered it “useless”
m1jbY TIL in 1987, New York Yankee Don Mattingly set a major league record for grand slams in a season hitting 6. He didn't hit a single grand slam in any of his other 13 seasons.
kJWwd TIL In a feat of rage, Emperor Hadrian once stabbed a slave in the eye with a pen. Feeling regretful whe he calmed down, Hadrian called the slave and told him to ask for literally anything as compensation. The slave replied "i just want my eye back"
yQANM TIL that the average like to dislike ratio on a YouTube video is 90%; for every 9 likes, there is 1 dislike