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TIL That Beginner’s Luck actually has some basis behind it.

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YALP TIL adjectives in English always have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a ‘lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife’, but any other word order would sound entirely wrong.
1aJ6O TIL of Steve Comisar: a man who sold "solar powered clothes dryers" for $49.95 in national magazines. Unsuspecting customers would receive a length of clothes line.
0wpWy TIL Every year, 10 Russian officials travel to US military bases to check that the B-1 bomber cannot carry a nuke, as part of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
OoO8g TIL Ford created the iconic Jeep design
VBJp4 TIL Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night wasn't released until years after his death, for a Super Mario World-themed compilation album called Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' promoting childhood literacy in memory of a talent agent who died in a helicopter crash with Stevie Ray Vaughan