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TIL the oldest occurrence of the word "fuck" in English is from a 1310 record by the court in Chester on outlawing a Roger Fuckbythenavel

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45JR TIL radiocarbon dating will no longer work independently on fossils and artifacts post-WW2 due to residual radiation resulting nuclear arms testing. Future archeologists will not be able to date our remains using only carbon dating.
lo1dA TIL of Adam Rainer, the man who was born and lived the first 20 years of his life as a dwarf at 4’10”. Then he started to grow at an alarming rate and died as a giant at 7’1”.
78kwL TIL in 1991, the last of California's manual telephone switchboards, which used pull and plug cords, was being replaced with computerized equipment. Most phone companies had replaced them in the 1950s but the owner of Kerman Telephone Company stalled because he did not want to lay off any operators
9YNrD TIL if Finding Nemo was to be a scientifically accurate movie, after Nemo’s mother died, his father would have turned into a female and mated with him
ZP7p TIL That the founder of Kodak, George Eastman killed himself because he had accomplished everything he felt necessary to do and didn’t feel like waiting for his diabetes to kill him slowly