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TIL that the term ‘Viking’ denotes an occupation not a people

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PBxE TIL AT&T secretly sells customer data to law enforcement and keeps information like call time, duration, and even location data on file for years.
GAXLE TIL that in the early 1960s, Texas AM radio station KXOL in Fort Worth had among its staff future comedian George Carlin, future CBS reporter Bob Schieffer, and future Price is Right announcer Rod Roddy.
69B6l TIL that the word with most meanings in the English language is the word "set." It has 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.
dmW9 TIL Katy Perry’s music video for “Dark Horse” has been praised by Egyptologists for its accuracy to the Cleopatra myth.
4kDma TIL the first UPC-marked item ever to be scanned at a retail checkout was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum, purchased at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974.