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

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LQY70 TIL about the Industrial Workers of the World. A labor movement that was crushed early on for being too radical
W7pyY TIL of Invader, a French street artist that has set up more than 3,800 unique mosaic art pieces in cities worldwide
GWO4 TIL the SR-71 Blackbird outran nearly 4000 missiles fired at it during its service life.
oRNRA TIL drivers of Ram 2500 pickup trucks in the US are more than twice as likely to be drunk drivers than the national average
kOvW1 TIL that soccer player Didier Drogba and his teammates helped stop a civil war in their native Ivory Coast by asking both sides to stop fighting.