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TIL millennials now outnumber baby boomers.

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oRRBL TIL 85% of fights end up on the ground
OGOmR TIL a major naval battle between the English and French took place in Hudson Bay in 1697, along the arctic coast of what is now Manitoba. The French were trying to drive out England's Hudson's Bay Company. The battle was a victory for France.
GkXg TIL Steve Wozniak’s favorite video game is Tetris. He submitted so many high scores to Nintendo Power that they eventually stopped printing them, so he then sent in his scores under the name “Evets Kainzow”
wLB5W TIL that in 1985, while taking a break from the Geneva Summit, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to ally with one another if aliens attacked
5Vv7R TIL that Margaret Fleming (1980–c.2000), who had learning difficulties, was murdered by her carers Edward Cairney and Avril Jones in Inverkip, Scotland. She had not been seen for 17 years before her disappearance was investigated. Cairney and Jones were convicted in 2019; her body was never found.