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TIL that there is more about !!!... (FACTORIAL)
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QJBOd
TIL that The Apostrophe Protection Society that was founded to enforce the proper use of the apostrophe in written English was brought to a "full stop" in 2019. The founder of the society stated that "the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won!"
On6g
TIL in 1885, a man was to be hanged for murder in England. After 3 attempts to hang him all failed, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. He was eventually released and died an old man in Wisconsin in 1945.
bEEN
TIL: In the Olympics of 67 A.D., Emperor Nero competed in the 4-horse chariot races with a 10-horse team, only to be thrown from his chariot. He didn’t finish the race but he was still proclaimed the winner on the grounds that he would have won had he been able to complete the race.
LExr
TIL In order to reach “top 1%” status globally, you need to earn around $47,500 per year
AN0gB
TIL that in 2014 researchers at MIT conducted a study that found participants were capable of extracting a picture's conceptual meaning after viewing it for as short as 13 ms, meaning the maximum framerate the human eye can see is about 77 frames per second.