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TIL the expression 'oi' was voted to be the 61st most beautiful word in the English language by a poll of non-English speakers in 2004. It was added to US Scrabble in 2006.

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pl44 TIL that billionaire Elon Musk was severely bullied throughout his childhood, and was once hospitalized when a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and then beat him until he blacked out.
pGr4 TIL that the offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings
GmdG TIL the reason that the U.S. Naval Academy has a goat for a mascot is because goats used to be common on ships as a source of dairy products. Goats were smaller and safer than cows at sea - plus they can swim.
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dDe5Z TIL that every book published in the United Kingdom and Ireland has to have one copy kept at the British Library. It gets about 8,000 new books every day, adds 6 miles (9.65 km) of new shelf space annually, and stores over 200,000,000 titles.