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TIL the rate of US gun violence has been steadily falling since 1993.

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5ag9 TIL that the accent commonly found in 30’s and 40’s films was a made-up mix between American and British English, known as Mid-Atlantic English.
peWQ TIL that the “Galileo” space probe was intentionally crashed into Jupiter at the end of its operational life to avoid contaminating Jupiter’s moons with bacteria.
X0G8E Today I learned example.com is a reserved domain owned by IANA , created in 1999 (RFC 2606). The domain was set aside to provide an example name that doesn’t conflict with real domains. It can’t be sold or transferred and is a globally recognized placeholder for tutorials.
oR80E TIL G. K. Chesterton loved to engage in friendly public debates with such men as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Bertrand Russell. According to his autobiography, he and Shaw played cowboys in a silent film that was never released.
1ypV TIL that there is an “everlasting lightning storm” that rages continuously for up to 10 hours a night, in exactly the same place, 260 nights a year