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TIL Getting 5 sunburns before the age of 18 doubles your risk of skin cancer

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Mew9B TIL of the match at the 1995 French Open between Jana Novatna & Chanda Rubin, in the 3rd set Novotna led 5-0, 40-0, the biggest lead possible in a tennis set, but somehow managed to squander it blowing nine match points and losing the match
LkdZP TIL that the word Hallelujah comes from the Hebrew hallelu+Jah meaning “praise god.” It is synonymous with the Muslim phrase humdulillah, to the extent that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use humdullilah in place of hallelujah.
64VQ TIL Brandenn Bremmer was a genius–had an IQ of 178, read books at 18 months old, played the piano at age 3, and started college at age 11–who committed suicide at age 14 with no signs of depression, suicide note, or pressure to achieve from his parents
jplR TIL that an American family tried to live a year without Chinese made goods in which they found it almost impossible. They wrote a book on it.
YdBW TIL since wi-fi is nearly nonexistent in Cuba, people use the “Offline Internet”, passing hard disk drives around from person to person