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TIL An average house fly lives for about a month. A lot longer than the commonly thought 2 or 3 days.

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Z9QB TIL that Icelanders have no family names. Instead, their surname is just their father’s name plus “son” or “dottir”
94wm TIL HAL Laboratory named that way because each letter put them one step ahead of IBM
eN8k TIL Splenda’s sweet taste was discovered when a scientist who was told “test this chemical” misheard it as “taste this chemical”.
69AvX TIL in the medieval era a popular legend regarding the purpose behind the building of the pyramids was to protect all the knowledge of the world from being lost in the great flood. they were constructed some 300 years before the flood by either the prophet Enoch or Hermes
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