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TIL that 10! (ten factorial) seconds is exactly as long as six weeks, down to the second.

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kWB4 TIL that Bill Murray is thought to have coined the modern use of the phrase “you’re toast” by ad libbing a line in Ghost Busters (1984)
ADXJo TIL charges were dropped on an Australian man for displaying the word "C*NT" on a public billboard because judges ruled the word as 'commonplace vernacular that is not deemed offensive' in Australia.
E1W8x TIL Memorial Day was started by former slaves as Decoration Day during the Civil War to celebrate emancipation and those who fought for justice. During the Jim Crow era, the holiday was whitewashed into the apolitical Memorial Day to erase the "divisive" issues of slavery and Black citizenship
YDov TIL that several Native American tribes fought on the side of the British in the Revolutionary War, including the Mohawk and the Cherokee.
worGo TIL that the extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels