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TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the definition for “walrus” and many other W words in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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GAom1 TIL: A study in 2009 randomly selecting people with beards, mustaches, and clean-shaven found that mustached individuals made 8.2% more money than the bearded and 4.3% more than cleanshaven. However, they spent 11% more money. The study was funded by the American Mustache Institute.
BrpJd TIL that a woman, whose husband died fighting the Nazis, requested to be allowed to drive a tank to avenge her husband. She proved herself a skilled tank driver, died from injuries obtained in battle, and was posthumously named Hero of the Soviet Union.
oRylK TIL King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia are cousins
jNXVE TIL about the fact that snakes do turn out to be more social than previously believed and apparently have more complex social interactions than we had previously known.
4XEEw TIL Tim Horton's dropped the apostrophe from their name to dodge language laws in Quebec and keep a consistent sign across Canada