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TIL that 50% of Roger Federer's name is "er"

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AQx TIL In place of bands or songs you can use a comedian’s name as the basis of your Pandora station in order to hear stand-up.
KYGww TIL before whistles were introduced, hockey referees used a cowbell. They had to switch to whistles when fans started bringing their own cowbells to disrupt game play.
5VYnQ TIL of Northstar Island, a 20,000 m^2 artificial island used for oil production in the Beaufort Sea
dLB7 TIL: A scientist let a computer program a chip, using natural selection. The outcome was an extremely efficient chip, the inner workings of which were impossible to understand.
kJ4g1 TIL the last widow of a Civil War veteran died in December 2020, at the age of 101.