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TIL that Vincent Connare, the man who designed the font 'Comic Sans', said in 2017 that he has only used it once while sending a complaint letter to Sky Broadband. They offered him a £10 refund.

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YxVZ TIL that despite the name originating from Tchaikovsky’s ballet, composed nearly seventy years prior to the movie, the name ‘Princess Aurora’ is now a registered trademark of The Walt Disney Company, creating copyright and licensing issues for any future performances of 'The Sleeping Beauty Ballet’.
KEvQ TIL that it is by pure coincidence that we exist on a planet and in a time when our star is covered exactly during a total eclipse. No other known planet has total eclipses and at some point in the future they won’t occur on Earth either.
rJ00 TIL 30% of the world population cannot drink wine – they get severe headaches
8aY7X TIL: Will Smiths full name is Willard Carroll Smith Jr.
LnKp TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.