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TIL a study found that nine fatal, predatory wolf attacks occurred worldwide between 2002-2020. And only two of those attacks took place in North America.

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kJpJB TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an unusual ability to solve new problems. When presented with a problem in programming on which there had been no published literature, he said "Oh, that!", then gave a lecture of over an hour explaining how to solve it using a hitherto unconceived theory
5YjQ9 TIL that sentences with the sole purpose of annoying the reader exist and are called "garden path sentences". They make you go back and read the sentence again, an example is: "The old man the boat"
15NP TIL that J.K. Rowling wrote the final chapter of the 7th Harry Potter book 9 years before the 1st book was released.
W7EnN TIL Hard drives will be physically faster if you format files to the outer edge of disk
Z8RRQ TIL that the creator of hot cheetos (Richard Montañez) worked as a janitor at a fitro-lays factory and dropped out at fourth grade. The hot cheeto dust was also a homemade recipe created by Richard Montañez and his wife.