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TIL documents presented by a Pakistani official were found to forged because they were written in Calibri supposedly in 2006, but Calibri was only included in Microsoft Office 2007

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pjkb TIL In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.
e0BRg TIL of Robert S. Abbott, who founded 'The Chicago Defender' in 1905 for just $7. With the top circulation of any Black-owned newspaper in the states it made him a multi-millionaire and contributed to The Great Migration. Thanking his ex-landlady for encouraging him, he gave her an 8 room house.
grvb8 TIL Aristotle's payment for teaching Alexander the Great was the reconstruction and repopulation of Aristotle's home village, which had been destroyed and enslaved by Alexander's father.
E1k1X TIL there are more $100 dollar bills in general circulation than there are $20 dollar bills, but about 1.5 billion.
QJX0p TIL- On 18th April 1930 the BBC's news announcer reported: "There is no news" and played piano music for the rest of the programme.