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TIL that the chances of getting published in The New Yorker are about 0.0000416 percent.

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AEX4 TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout is very inefficient when compared to alternatives. It was originally created to “slow down” typists in order to decrease the chances of jamming the typewriter. However, the layout still endures today as we use it almost exclusively.
kRA1 TIL that before Joseph Stalin ruled Russia he performed bank robberies to fund the communist cause
LdNZ TIL that on 18 May 1990, Jim Swire, who’s daughter died in the Lockerbie bombing, took a fake bomb on board a British Airways from London Heathrow to New York JFK and then on a flight from New York JFK to Boston to show that airline security had not improved.
xwPk TIL that Ming the Clam, the world’s oldest animal at 507, was killed by researchers trying to tell how old it was
9YLNQ TIL the term "spaghetti western" was coined by American critics and those in other countries because most of the films were produced and directed by Italians.