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TIL Teller from Penn & Teller has legally changed his name to just “Teller”.

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98PD TIL the Netherlands is the third-largest direct foreign investor in the United States.
kOvGe TIL Instagram started as a Whiskey meetup app. After analyzing how people used it, they relaunched it as Instagram, and sold it for $1bn two years later
nr4d TIL there is a tribe called the Sentinelese who live on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. For thousands of years they have refused all contact with the outside world. Using only stones and arrows, they have successfully repelled Arabs, Persians, Indians, Europeans, and a fucking helicopter.
Bgvvb TIL the dilemma zone is the term for the area where you cannot safely stop for a yellow light nor reach the intersection before the light turns red.
89ML TIL it took early “humans” 110,000 generations of using stone tools before controlling fire, another 20,000 generations until written language was invented, and only another 250 generations until we put a man on the moon.