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TIL The word ‘pixel’ is short for 'picture element’.

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4XNN5 TIL that a veterinarian is often the first to see signs of domestic and child abuse
9YWdr TIL Unlike the Norse, Anglo-Saxons believed that Odin (Woden) was a mortal common ancestor, and English kings continued to claim to be descendants of Odin up to the 12th century.
epWQb TIL when you sing "Home, home on the range. Where the deer and the antelope play," there are no antelope in the USA.
4k48g TIL in 1924 Gladys Ingle and the Black Cat Hollywood Daredevil stunt team were able to replace a plane’s wheel while in the air and film it.
pDjZ TIL Chaplin was once forced to pay child support for a child that wasn’t even his. When a young woman claimed that her child was Chaplin’s, blood testing determined that the child was not Chaplin’s, but the judge refused to have the test admitted into court, so he made Chaplin pay a substantial sum.