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TIL that AAAA batteries exist.

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aaKb TIL trial attorney Mark Lanier offered to settle an asbestos lawsuit against Carborundum for $10,000. They declined and it went to trial. The jury awarded $118,000,000.
8e6AL TIL that Christine Maggiore, founder of the HIV/AIDS denialist group Alive and Well, died of AIDS in 2008.
nPDo TIL when 1978 TV series “Holocaust” aired in West Germany in 1979, a panel of historians would answer questions live afterwards. They ended up receiving thousands of calls from Germans saying this was the first time they heard about the Holocaust. “Holocaust” later became German ‘word of the year’.
p8EEO TIL There are generally two definitions of "literally": one which is to take something in a literal sense or manner, the second which is to take things figuratively. It's been defined this way for hundreds of years.
wL7jE TIL that Gollum's Acceptance Speech for Best Virtual Performance at the 2003 MTV's won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form