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TIL a total of 2,500 Londoners have been arrested over the past five years for allegedly sending “offensive” messages via social media.

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b6YVE TIL: Eumachia was a Roman business woman and priestess, being one of the few wealthy women of the time and funded many public buildings under the practice of euergetism, which is the practice in which high status/wealthy distribute their wealth to the community. Her statue is in the Naples Museum.
9dAp TIL During the 2001 Presidential Clinton-Bush transition, 62 new White House staff discovered the W key missing from their keyboards
4566 TIL that an Australian family used a large black crystal as a doorstop for over a decade before realizing that it held a 733-carat black sapphire, the Black Star of Queensland
8aPKL TIL that the ‘Wilhelm Scream’, a distinctive stock audio scream, which has appeared in over 300 movies was voiced by Sheb Wooley who went onto record The Purple People Eater.
9YmOX TIL in 1999 when Christina Aguilera attended her boyfriend’s high school prom the DJ played her just-released single "Genie in a Bottle", but the students left the dance floor en masse out of jealousy.