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TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary quotes the Beastie Boys nine times

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69reY TIL of the Philly Taco; a food combination from Philadelphia where a cheesesteak is wrapped inside a slice of pizza
mdbE TIL that the 404 error code originated at the CERN labs in Switzerland, where a physical room numbered 404 housed the original WWW database.
kOv0B TIL German art student hand-illuminated Silmarillion in the style of medieval monastery book
loaA7 TIL The longest orgasm in mammals is that of the domestic pig Sus scrofa domesticus. On average, its orgasm lasts 30 minutes, but it can last for as long as 90 minutes.
R746a TIL about Graham's number. This is a finite number so large that you couldn't write it out even if the numbers you used were subatomic in size and you used the whole observable universe as a canvas. But we know it ends in a seven.