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TIL the British English spelling of the word "curb" is "kerb"

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ARGo TIL, John F. Kennedy actually had more than one assassination attempt. The first one was by a former postal worker. He built a bomb but didn’t detonate it because Kennedy had his wife and children with him.
XLXX TIL that Rose Leslie (“Ygritte”) grew up in a castle ;her father being the chieftain of Clan Leslie. Kit Hartington (“Jon Snow”) is a distant cousin
9YJam TIL of the nocturnal eastern quoll, a cat-sized marsupial once extinct in Australia then re-introduced from Tasmania. Quolls are related to Tasmanian devils; both are carnivorous marsupials, and quolls have been known to snatch food from Tasmanian devils.
6Ep9Z TIL Sunspots are used to observe the sun's rotation and have an average lifespan of 2 weeks. A magnification of 40x-50x in a filtered telescope shows a full-disc view of the Sun, and if sunspots are present, they will appear quite small
LLMm TIL Back in August 2014, 50 Cent challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one page out of a Harry Potter book