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TIL on average, people speak 16,000 words daily

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p8ONN TIL that Killer Whales are not actually whales. They're dolphins.
v1vGr TIL The Jack in the Box mascot commercials were made to bring good PR to the company after they had one of the worst E. coli outbreaks in modern US history
D1mDp TIL that variable gears on a bicycle predate the motor vehicle by almost 20 years.
jNPwp TIL that a man was found guilty of an unsolved murder by tattooing the murder scene on his chest
nNOb TIL Genghis Khan raped so many woman that every 1 in 200 people today are descended from him