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TIL that Japan has over 14,000 islands

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kO06B TIL that during the run-up to the Gulf War, Muhammad Ali travelled to Iraq and personally secured the release of 15 American hostages being detained by Saddam Hussein, despite the US Government and press condemning the mission and Ali as 'another egomaniacal celebrity out of his depth'.
e0d96 TIL USPS Trucks are 30 years old
8a77b TIL of Misophonia, a condition in which annoying noises (chewing, swallowing, etc) can cause people to feel extreme rage
jN8PN TIL The oldest occurrence of the word "fuck" in adjectival form in English comes from the margins of a 1528 manuscript copy of Cicero's De Officiis. A monk had scrawled in the margin notes, "fuckin Abbot".
rRVg0 TIL Solar activity varies with an 11-year cycle. At solar minimum, the Sun often appears nearly featureless, completely free of sunspots. At maximum, however, there can be hundreds of sunspots arranged in a half dozen or more groups