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TIL Danielle Steel has sold 800 million copies of her novels.

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0dkWv TIL: In the 3 Wishes Project, that is granting wishes to patients who were dying in the intensive care unit, the average cost to fulfill the wishes was 30 USD.
G7WG TIL that those rounded bumps on the painted lane dividers are called Botts’ dots.
Qywd TIL There was an ancient philosopher who would often troll people by “living by example.” This included masturbating in public, upon finishing said “If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly…”
1vd4 TIL Bob Barker learned karate from Chuck Norris and continued to train until he was in his 70s, when he decided that “the time had come to exercise more lightly.”
b9vAN TIL Facebook's facial recognition system was found to outperform similar systems used by the FBI. Where Facebook has a 98% accuracy rating in identifying faces, the FBI had a success rate of 85%.