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TIL there is a punctuation mark for sarcasm. Sarc mark!
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TIL A person may serve as President of the US in excess of two terms for a maximum of ten years if the president acted as president for two years or less in a term where another was elected as president.
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TIL surveillance in video games enables detailed profiling of the people playing the game, with some games collecting more behavioral data than social media platforms. Researchers warn of significant risks to consumer privacy.
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TIL that Larry Swearingen is on death row in Texas despite substantial evidence that he was in jail on traffic charges at the time of the crime.
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TIL The world's largest burrito weighed 5,799.44 kg (12,785.576 lbs) and was achieved by CANIRAC La Paz, in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico on 3 November 2010. 54 restaurants spent 9 1/2 hours creating the 2.4 km (1.49 mi) burrito which was later enjoyed by thousands.
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TIL the word evolution does not appear once in Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859). Instead he uses the word 'transmutation’.