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TIL Fifty Shades of Grey was the highest selling book of the 2010s.

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Y7947 TIL Roosters Have Spurs
ANbPd TIL the concept and name for the atom bomb was first conceived of by H. G. Wells in the 1914 novel The World Set Free. The story may have influenced the development of the real life weapons, as physicist Leo Szilard had read the novel before conceiving of the neutron chain reaction.
X09wR TIL that the term "Virgin Mary" is based on a mistranslation of the Hebrew word "almah" (young woman) into the Greek word "parthenos" (virgin) in Isaiah 7:14, influencing Christian doctrine of the virgin birth.
pooQ TIL you can cure hiccups by having an orgasm
M7peA TIL the Mbabram (a formally isolated and now extinct Australian Aboriginal language) used the word “dog” to mean “dog”. The word evolved completely independently of the English one out of pure coincidence and the two are in no way related.