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TIL[nt] about the only word in English with a silent v: Milngavie, a Scottish town.

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wL14o TIL that every month, since 1983, every member of Congress has received a complimentary copy of Hustler Magazine, a pornographic publication, as a form of protest by the mag.
B4wr TIL Matthew McConaughey’s Lincoln commercials were only minimally scripted, and was influenced by McConaughey not wanting them to “sound like an advertisement.”
RoEj TIL- A loyal dog once stopped his owner from committing suicide by knocking the gun out of the owner’s hand.
JY8Rj TIL Berlin Germany has an airport Brandenburg(BER) that has been under construction for 14 years with constant delayed openings with no real end in sight. It has never seen a single passenger and may actually never open, making it one of the costliest public construction debacles in history.
R5D87 TIL that facial recognition on an iPhone probably doesn’t work on dead people.