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TIL on average, people speak 16,000 words daily

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LQNZ0 TIL Donald Bellisario, the creator of the show "Quantum Leap", served in the Marines(sgt) with Lee Harvey Oswald and interacted with him. He created an episode where it is made clear that Oswald killed Kennedy specifically because Bellisario was confident Oswald committed the assassination
e0pWk TIL Despicable Me is the highest-grossing animated franchise ever, even beating Shrek.
jVLX TIL it is estimated over 95% of structural fires in Detroit are due to arson – fifty times the national average.
71aL TIL there is a spider that hunts black widow but its venom only would cause mild burning sensation to human.
xReB TIL that at 73 years old, Ronald Reagan received a recruiting letter from the Marine Corps while he was President