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TIL only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still exists

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a8gAJ TIL that in 2011 a man in Egpyt named his daughter Facebook. He chose the name to "to express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth," who organized protests with social media, starting that day, which led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after 30 years in power.
Ooy17 TIL of the lynching of Postmaster Frazier B. Baker and his infant daughter. Frazier was appointed postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina in 1897. Local whites objected and had undertaken a campaign to force his removal. When efforts failed to dislodge Baker, a mob attacked him and his family.
oRKeE TIL that those plastic wall clocks in schools are actually atomic, and the reason they speed ahead when they get messed up is due to a radio signal from NIST called WWVB
6EELl TIL you lose about a pound of weight everynight while you sleep, just by breathing.
gr1AA TIL "First Man" screenwriter Josh Singer interviewed Neil Armstrong's wife Janet, who died two months before the release of the 2018 movie. Janet's anger during Neil's mission was real, as seen in her outburst to NASA men, "You're just a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood!"