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TIL that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. lack the math competency expected of an 8th grader

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5VO99 TIL in 1879, a French peasant woman and her husband claimed (falsely) to have inherited a large sum of money from a stranger who’s life they saved on a train. They lived in luxury for 20 years until the safe was opened and contained a brick and an English halfpenny.
0w1RL TIL all the stars in the Milky way can fit into the volume of our solar system
o0AY TIL about the “God of the internet”. Jon Postel, until 1998 he was the single person responsible for assigning internet addresses
GYQN7 TIL Tom Brady’s body guards were convicted of attempted murder trying to retrieve pics from the paparazzi
DQKRr TIL that the British actor Harry H. Corbett famous for starring in the sitcom Steptoe and Son, reportedly killed two Japanese soldiers in hand to hand combat during World War Two.