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TIL the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the most esteemed reference works in history, was initially constructed via properly cited user submissions, much like Wikipedia.

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d8REB TIL that the most commonly used sentence in the Harry Potter book series was: “Nothing happened.”; for The Hunger Games series it was: “My name is Katniss Everdeen.”, and for the Twilight series it was: “I sighed.”
1a99D TIL about Malone Mukwende. He is actively creating a free medical handbook on skin conditions for POC to bridge the gap of exclusively caucasian examples of various skin afflictions in his medical textbooks.
6dEX TIL Photoshop detects if you are trying to edit an image of currency, and stops you from opening/printing the file.
e0p06 TIL 15% of American divorces are caused in part by "men paying more attention to their video games than their spouse", as of 2011.
rmXe TIL There is a town in Nebraska with a population of 1. The Mayor grants herself a liquor license yearly.