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TIL A “moment” is 90 seconds according to Old English

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OO9g TIL Hawaii’s largest-ever earthquake occurred in 1868, and the aftershocks are STILL being observed.
vPbvD TIL Hirohito, the Emperor of Japan during World War II, remained in power as a constitutional monarch until his death in 1989.
p5ZZ TIL Kent Hovind, prominent figure of the young earth creationist movement, and often cited as an expert by YECs, has never earned a college degree in any field of science, has never received any accredited college degree, and is in prison for multiple criminal convictions.
po4A TIL that Microsoft Encarta (original codename “Gandalf”) began as a pet project for Bill Gates around 1985 after being rejected by Encyclopaedia Britannica as a partner in making material available to PC users as a CD-ROM. Encarta’s eventual demise in 2009 was widely attributed to Wikipedia
8GnX TIL that Phyllis Smith (Phyllis from The Office) was once both an NFL cheerleader and a burlesque dancer.