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TIL of retronyms, words created to differentiate between two words, where previously no clarification was required, like acoustic guitar.

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kOPQ5 TIL an Australian Woman posted a selfie on Facebook of her holding up a winning horse race ticket. One of her FB friends took that picture with the barcode and claimed the winnings before she could.
m10QP TIL of Arthur John Priest, “The unsinkable stoker”. He survived 4 sinkings including the RMS Titanic and the HMHS Britannic. He was also onboard the RMS Olympic when it collided with the HMS Hawke.
yjJv TIL It’s been suggested that the REAL ‘Lone Ranger’ Was An African American Deputy U.S. Marshal named Bass Reeves
P1LQL TIL: that WD40 Literally stands for Water displacement 40th formula
WkjQA TIL about TON 618 which is a very distant and extremely luminous quasar that is 10 Billion light years away. It contains the most massive known black hole that has a mass which is heavier than 66 Billion Suns.