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TIL: Graffiti is Plural. Graffito is the singular form

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yjZa TIL that the WWI race horse Man'O'War had such a powerful genome that 37 percent of race stakes winners in 1966 were his direct descendants
aw179 TIL that one of the pioneers of the pneumatic tyre,John Dunlop,came across his idea when his son kept having headaches when cycling. He inflated some tubes of rubber and attached them to his son's tricycle - it was a hit and he went on to found one of the largest companies in the early 20th century.
WBmd TIL 6 Nasa recruits are living for a year under a 36ft in diameter x 20 ft tall dome in Hawaii, to simulate life on Mars. They must wear a spacesuit when outside the dome. Recruits are: A French astrobiologist, German physicist and 4 Americans (pilot, architect, journalist, soil scientist).
V9Q4 TIL a previously unknown species of beaked whale has been discovered in the northern Pacific. It’s black, 24 feet long, and has only been seen from dead animals that have washed up on the beach.
LlJ9 TIL Count Dracula got his name from his father being in a secret knight order named “Order of the Dragon” whose job was to protect Christianity from Ottoman empire