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TIL there are 101 acceptable 2 letter words in scrabble.

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DB1V TIL that during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots Bill Cosby took to the airwaves of his local NBC station to urge people to stop rioting and instead watch the finale of The Cosby Show.
OGnKa TIL the aptly named HMS Revenge (1577), after being captured in battle, perished in a storm near the Azores. An estimated 200 Spanish sailors who captured it were lost.
69g5W TIL in 1942, the city Winnipeg, Manitoba was mock-occupied by mock-Nazis, part of a campaign known as "If Day" to sell war bonds
kOppE TIL of Frank Lentini, an Italian boy born with four feet, three legs and two sets of genitals, due to having a parasitic twin.
a5ao TIL that the US helped France improve its nuclear weapons. Since US law prevents sharing atomic-bomb information, France and the US used a method called “negative guidance” or “Twenty Questions”; French scientists described to Americans their research, and were told whether they were correct.