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TIL seconds is short form for second minutes as it is the second division of an hour by sixty

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wd1o TIL Americans killed by cops now outnumbers Americans killed in the Iraq War.
4ZPX TIL A cat named Masha saved a baby’s life. The long-haired red tabby found an abandoned baby in a box in the snow and climbed in to keep the baby warm and meowed to get the attention of a passerby. The abandoned baby was rescued unharmed.
d86PZ TIL that researchers at Yale managed to restore some function to disembodied pig brains.
X0epD TIL: At 555ft, the Washington Monument was the tallest building in the world for a few years until it was surpassed by the Eiffel Tower.
BrPZL TIL of Ida Wood, who lived 24 years with her sister in a hotel room in NYC without leaving the room and any contact to the outside world