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TIL Lake Chad used to be part of a larger lake promptly called "Mega-Chad"

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1rX8 TIL Before 1800 four first names referred to half of all English men
ANDaw TIL that the predecessor to the modern SD card was a storage format called MultiMediaCard, or MMC. Many SD card readers can read some MMC cards without issue. A very popular variant is eMMC, which is an embedded low-cost solid-state storage option for mobile phones and laptops.
NMWe TIL that 50% of domestic violence is reciprocal. 53% of nonreciprocal domestic violence is committed against men. 71% of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women.
6EnrQ TIL: the word "tycoon" is from the Japanese "taikun", meaning "great prince", and made the jump to English in the 1850s largely because it was used to describe Abraham Lincoln
6Eg7Q TIL of compersion - the secondhand rush of happiness you feel when seeing somebody else do well.