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TIL the word Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’

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GrKN TIL the inventor of My Pillow was a crack addict who got sober when 3 of the largest crack dealers in the city staged an intervention.
WX5o TIL Mattel made and sold Wonder Woman’s “invisible jet” as a collectible. The package was an empty plastic shell with nothing inside, and was originally intended as an April Fool’s joke.
W7Y5L TIL of the Lizardman's Constant, the idea that in any given poll roughly 4% of answers will be comedic or malicious and not representative of the respondent's true thoughts, such as answering "Yes" when asked if they believe Lizardmen control the world.
noNr TIL That 29% of L.A.’s air pollution comes from east asia
egkn TIL Nicholas Saunderson (1683-1739) lost his eyes to smallpox before he was a year old, yet he taught himself to read by tracing the letters on gravestones and learned languages and mathematics by pricking holes in paper. He became the fourth professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.