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TIL The word ‘oxymoron’ is itself an oxymoron, meaning 'sharp dullness’

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neQ4B TIL that Will Sampson had never acted before playing Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the producers were just looking for a tall Native American and chose the 6'7" (2.01 m) Sampson after a car dealer called them and said "the biggest sonofabitch Indian came in the other day!".
oBr57 TIL Toto's single of 'Africa' went platinum in 2017 and 4x platinum as of October this year.
4PnX TIL that the Credit Card industry refers to people who pay their credit card bills off every month as “deadbeats”
QNZ5E Today I learned that a schoolteacher called Angela Ruiz Robles invented the precursor to the e-book in 1948
NOdM TIL: 60% of men in India have penises too small for international standard condoms