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TIL the fear of palindromes is called aibohphobia.

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yVBY8 TIL all humans alive on the planet today are related to a single individual who lived as recently as a few thousand years ago, according to the most realistic scientific models to find the "Most Recent Common Ancestor"
KObBw TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary for T2: Judgement day was $15 million and total words spoken by him in the entire film is 700. This attributes to $21,429 per word and the line ”Hasta la vista, baby” amounts to $85,716.
vPE9j TIL The notion that lobster was such a low-quality food that prisoners in New England rioted if it was over-served and indentured servants had contracts stating they could only have lobster three times a week is actually a myth
8aErP TIL that in 1906 Eleanor Roosevelt bought a chicken-wire cage to hang out the window of her New York City townhouse for her first child, Anna, to nap in—a practice known as “airing” for city dwelling children
4XKN6 TIL wherever you are on earth, there is a greater than 95% chance that the point on the opposite side of the planet to you will be ocean.