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TIL that at any given second there is a body-wide war being fought amongst germs in your body.

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7BbX TIL that some older PCs would play Für Elise through their motherboard speakers to indicate hardware failure. Other tunes occasionally heard included “It’s a Small, Small World” and “Eye of the Tiger.”
d8Xg8 TIL in the year 2000 American Target Shooter Josh Lakatos decided to illegally stay in the Olympic Village and turned an unsupervised building into a playground for sex orgies.
b9JDp TIL: There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than anywhere else on the planet.
EgDaV TIL there is a firm sequence of adjectives in English that native speakers use but rarely know about. The order is opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose. For instance you would say “small red Japanese commuter car” not “commuter Japanese red small car”.
xVg5B TIL -40 degrees is where Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same. -40 degrees C = -40 degrees F