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RWy1 TIL: 1000 days from today, a Total Solar Eclipse will be seen across the entire breadth of the continental United States for the first time in nearly a century.
7rBNM TIL that the Billy Joel song "She's Always a Woman" was the last song that played in the World Trade Center Plaza before the Towers' collapse on September 11, 2001
BwJL TIL Hitler slept until noon on D-Day, and thought the invasion was great news. He had such confidence in his troops that he welcomed the invasion as his best chance to defeat the allies and win the war.
QJVKE TIL dog chew toys called bully sticks marketed as "single-ingredient pizzle" are dried bull penis, and pizzle has been known since at least the 1500's as a type of flogging whip
JYXn8 TIL The "Never argue with a fool" quote lacks proof crediting it to Mark Twain. The oldest suspected source is biblical proverbs 26:4 and 26:5: "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Or you will also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly deserves, That he not be wise in his own eyes."