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TIL "Apocalypse" (ἀποκάλυψις) is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling".

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p8RON TIL about Congressman Charlie Wilson's revenge. When he was 13, his neighbor, Charles Hazard poisoned his dog by mixing glass into its food. Years later, when Hazard was running for office, Wilson drove 96 people to the polls, telling them how Hazard had killed his dog. Hazard lost by sixteen votes.
MeMdA TIL that Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once commandeered an airplane and went on a joyride to Baltimore. They did that after sneaking out of a White house event.
R50D4 TIL According to the International Journal of Epidemiology and Health, one out of every twenty-five men will raise another man’s child and not know it.
wLYXP TIL NASA found an area on Mars which supposedly has sand dunes that look like Morse code. They have dubbed it “Martian Morse Code”
epMK6 TIL a coal fire may have helped sink the Titanic