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TIL 52% of the posts the make the front page of Reddit have been submitted at least once before.

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OoLwg TIL Renee Zellweger does not look the same as she used to. Still beautiful, though!
E8Aw TIL 63% of US prison inmates are functionally illiterate
n7xP TIL Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech is owned by CBS and it is illegal to distribute it
pYjmO TIL Ukrainians hang fake spiders/webs on their Christmas tree because of a folklore about an impoverished widow who couldn't afford to buy any holiday decorations. The spiders in her house heard her cries and added webs on her pine tree, which glittered gold and silver in the morning.
WMNB TIL that in 1972, a serbian flight attendant fell from 33000ft (10000m) after the plane she was flying in was torn apart by an explosive device. She survived the fall without permanent injuries.