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TIL the official name for Clippy (Microsoft’s office assistant) is actually Clippit

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Goo7 TIL a USMC General and Medal of Honor recipient wrote a bestselling book describing how wars exist to enrich corporations. In 1935.
kWw7 TIL in Idaho, at least 12 children of faith healers have died as a result of medically-preventable conditions since 2011 but as of November 2014 no charges have been filed. Idaho’s religious exemption law describes prayer as a spiritual “treatment” that can act as a legal substitute for medical care
oBOJW TIL William Safire was asked to prepare a speech for president Nixon to read on television to the world if Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became stranded on the moon.
6EVnJ TIL most people who can touch-type greater than 70wpm with greater than 90% accuracy, also can't correctly recite from memory the layout of their keyboard.
GAK5N TIL the Man-Eaters of Njombe were a pride of 15 lions that killed hundreds of people (perhaps as many as 1,500) between 1932-1947 in Tanzania. Unlike most lions, the Njombe pride did its killing in the afternoon, using the night hours to travel as far as 15 or 20 miles to an unsuspecting village.