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TIL Winston Churchill once defined tact as “the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such as way that they look forward to the trip.”

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e0APk TIL Jon Bon Jovi's parents were attending a wedding in 1987 when they recommended the wedding singer try out for their son's friend's band. The singer was Sebastian Bach, and the band became Skid Row
jxXE TIL that it rains more on Saturdays, because of the pollution that is built up during the five weekdays.
nOBd TIL that besides right-handedness, left-handedness, and ambidexterity, there are also people who are ambisinister, meaning they are awkward or clumsy with both hands.
D154D TIL Nikola Tesla planned to make school children smarter and healthier by saturating them unconsciously with electricity, wiring the walls of a schoolroom with high-voltage lines. The plan was provisionally approved by then superintendent of New York City schools, William H. Maxwell.
nn1d TIL in Australia, “Black Friday” refers to a series of bushfires that wiped out whole towns and killed 71 people