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TIL that Amazon ironically deleted copies of “1984” from customers’ Kindles, violating their own terms of service agreement.

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EQpw TIL that the DFW Airport is larger than the entire island of Manhattan.
8wk8 TIL, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years.
YpGXP TIL The taste map of the tongue that many people learned in school is nonsense. Taste receptors for salty, sweet, bitter and sour are found all over the tongue.
E1xgw TIL the Megalania, a venomous 23ft long species of giant monitor lizard, was hunted to extinction by early human inhabitants of Ice Age Australia.
woXXP TIL Elliott Smith's seminal album "Figure 8" has a title track, originally released only in Japan - ironically, unlike all 16 tracks from Smith's fifth release, it wasn't written by him. The song is part of Bob Dorough's "Schoolhouse Rock!" educational series released in 1973.