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TIL The Count from Sesame Street’s favorite number is 34,969.
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TIL only one person has ever been executed by the state of Wisconsin. The public execution was so graphic and horrible that Wisconsin abolished the death penalty two years later.
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TIL the computer term "software bug" is because a moth got stuck in a Mark II relay, causing errors in their computer output
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TIL: Facebook made about $90 per user in the US and Canada last year
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TIL There's very little proof that vitamin C actually has any effect on preventing or treating the common cold, although after reviewing 60 years of clinical research it was found that when taken daily, vitamin C very slightly shortens cold duration, by 8% in adults and 14% in children.
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TIL of Enheduanna who is the earliest known poet whose name has been recorded. She was the High Priestess of the goddess Inanna and the moon god Nanna. She lived in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.