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TIL Since 1945 the world has only been 26 days without war.

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PpGJ TIL In 1939 the New York Times predicted that the television would fail because the average American family would not have enough time to sit around watching it.
OXAX TIL a prison in Washington pairs up “death row” shelter cats with select inmates as part of a rehabilitation program.
P1mRe TIL: A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.
bBVN TIL that beer was invented in Iran 7000 years ago. Today, it’s outlawed there.
E1EbW TIL Jet Li turned down a role in The Matrix Reloaded because Hollywood producers wanted to record and copy all of his martial arts moves into a digital library, with all rights going to them.