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TIL that election silence is a thing in many countries around the world. There is a time period before the election that the media and campaigns must stop talking about the election.

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MeXGA TIL that, until recently, the Houston, TX police department regularly used Whataburger order numbers to mark crime scenes.
X0w8k TIL the iconic six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, "The Microsoft Sound" was created on a Mac. The creator, Brian Eno, admitted "I wrote it on a Mac. I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them."
QD8E TIL: There is a cat that is such a prolific hunter, bears actually run away upon seeing it
epDnn TIL about Margaret Ives Abbott the first woman to win a medal in the modern Olympics, and also part of the only mother-daughter pair to compete in one Olympics. Margaret won at golf, her mother, Mary, came in seventh. Coinciding with the Paris Exposition, many were unaware they were in the Olympics.
d8wYQ TIL the 12 days of Christmas actually start with Christmas Day instead of leading up to it