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TIL that 93% of Steam Users were Born on January 1st

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QYVL TIL An estimated 81 percent of people lie during a job interview
rwEo TIL An American has been held in a Dubai prison for 8 months without trial for uploading a spoof video on youtube.
78n9M TIL that John Surratt, a friend of John Wilkes Booth and co-conspirator in Lincoln's assassination, never faced any criminal or civil repercussions for his actions.
vP8RR TIL: That the final of the 100m at the 1924 Paris Olympics took place at 7pm on the 7th July 1924. Every year thereafter, at 7pm on the 7th July, winner Harold Abrahams and bronze medalist Arthur Porritt would dine together, until Abrahams's death in 1978.
N7RYQ TIL that when he was 8, George Carlin's aunt worked for the publisher of the Sunday newspaper funnies. Through his aunt, Carlin gained early access to the comics and would impress his classmates by predicting each weeks stories.