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TIL “Chad” is among the few Anglo-Saxon names to remain in common use.

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kJO77 TIL in 2011, a 29-year-old Australian bartender found an ATM glitch that allowed him to withdraw way beyond his balance. In a bender that lasted four-and-half months, he managed to spend around $1.6 million of the bank’s money.
8aKvP TIL the human body is biome that houses 10,000 or more species of microorganisms that live in and on our body.
wJKY TIL When Perelman solved the most important problem in topology he was awarded the Fields Medal and Millennium Prize of one million dollars. He declined both saying: “The main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community. I don’t like their decisions, I consider them unjust.”
OGArX TIL that it was once proposed to bury nuclear waste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, with the theory that tectonic plate subduction would eventually push it down into the Earth's mantle
OoBJL TIL that when parents view failure as debilitating and focus on their children’s performance rather on learning, their children tend to believe that intelligence is a fixed characteristic, rather than something malleable that they can improve.