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TIL A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It represents 1/100th of a second

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BgBnd TIL an analysis of Beethoven's hair found high levels of lead, arsenic & mercury. The high amount of lead in particular likely contributed to his deafness. One lock of hair had 380 micrograms per gram & a second one had 258 micrograms. A normal level of lead is around 4 micrograms or less per gram.
WQX4 TIL Winston Churchill enjoyed bricklaying in his spare time and built several walls at his house at Chartwell.
DAPv TIL that the Top 10 most popular birth dates in the US are all in September
yJJl TIL that 1389 people died at Tsar Nicholas II’s coronation party as people were trampled due to rumors that there wasn’t enough free beer and food.
JAk TIL In Saving Private Ryan, the two “German” soldiers shot trying to surrender were members of the Ost Battalions, prisoners froms eastern European countries invaded and forced into the German army. They were saying, “Please don’t shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone!”