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TIL Wordle was developed by software engineer Josh Wardle and gets its name from wordplay based on his last name

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KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.
eb9J TIL: There is an island known as “Just Room Enough Island” that has just enough room for a tree and a house.
9Y9Z7 TIL that wine merchant Bill Sokolin accidentally broke a bottle of Thomas Jefferson's wine that was valued at $519,000.
rNmO1 TIL that the streets in Hollister, California are slowly moving apart due to the creeping Calaveras fault
E15Rx TIL Tom Cruise's real name is 'Thomas Mapother'