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TIL - A work of fiction between 20,000 and 49,999 words is considered a novella. Once a book hits the 50,000 word mark, it is generally considered a novel.

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xVOW7 today I learned that we don't get torn apart while falling inside a gigantic blackhole.
18xX TIL at the start of his career, writer Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a column for Sports Illustrated about a racehorse that jumped the fence and ran away, after staring at the blank piece of paper on his typewriter all morning, he typed, “The horse jumped over the f**king fence”, and left.
EgbRd TIL Stanley Owen Green (22 February 1915 – 12 December 1993), known as the "Protein Man", was an English human billboard in central London in the latter half of the 20th century. One writer called him "the most famous non-famous person in London".
N7MNM TIL Otters have the thickest fur of any animal - as many as 1 million hairs per square inch
WMX TIL there is a Chinese version of Twitter that has twice the users that Twitter has.