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TIL Mary Frances Gerety who coined the iconic "A Diamond is Forever" slogan never married

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mxN0P TIL - Most of the smoke billowing up from a space shuttle launch is not exhaust. It is water vapor from the pool of water under the shuttle designed to absorb the acoustic shock waves that could otherwise tear the shuttle apart.
mKQY TIL 22 veterans every day commit suicide in the US
1aL7r TIL that Wednesday is derived from the Old English Wōdnesdæg, or "Day of Woden". Which is another name for Odin. So Wednesday is the Day of Odin.
ro0M TIL Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception, among other films does not use a cell phone or an e-mail because he’s just “not interested”, it gives him “time to think”, and he also prohibits them on the set of a movie
awlOJ TIL homicide levels in medieval England were at least 10 times what they are today.