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TIL Bookkeeper is the only English word with three pairs touching.

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aEBo TIL Mika Brzezinski, an MSNBC News Anchor, refused to read a report about Paris Hilton’s release from jail on National Television and ranking it over a story on the Iraq War. Then after repeatingly being pressured to do the story, she attempted to light the script on fire on the air.
PalV TIL that the Venus sisters challenged a male tennis player ranked 203rd in the world to a match but lost 6-1 and 6-2.
Z8EYa TIL The Swiss Air Force didn't respond to a hijacked airliner in their air space as it was outside normal office hours. A spokesman stated: "Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend"
nW9G TIL One of the most important and expensive scenes from James Cameron’s “The Abyss” was cut out of the movie.
WkOMA TIL that John Henry Patterson, the engineer famous for killing the Tsavo lions was, while Protestant, the leader of the first all Jewish military unit in WWI and is a celebrated person in Israel today