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TIL 2024 is a Tetrahedral (or Triangular Pyramidal) Number

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eNBL TIL that Alexander Turner, father of American poet Daisy Turner, was a slave who escaped from his Virginia plantation during the Civil War, joined the Union Army, and guided his regiment back to the plantation where he killed his former overseer
B99K TIL Mythbusters (no pun intended) found that a barista with a DD bra size resulted in men tipping 30% more and women tipping 40% more
XENx6 TIL that in the USSR, when foreign music was banned, bootleg records were made on old x-rays pulled from medical trash. These were called "ribs" and "bone records".
j6QgX TIL about “vicarious embarrassment” which explains extreme reactions to cringe comedy. For me, it can get so bad as to become physically painful
v1V1B TIL In 1998 Karl Bushby set out to become the first person to walk an unbroken path around the world, starting from Chile and finishing in the UK. He is currently in Kazakhstan.