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TIL 52% of the posts that make the front page of Reddit have been submitted at least once before.

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YpYXW TIL about the Atlas vampire, an unsolved murdercase in Stockholm 1932
R7Xg8 TIL Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence contained a passage that condemned slavery as one of the many evils foisted upon the colonies by the British crown.
ZLOB TIL that, because of his personal wealth from his acting career, Arnold Schwarzenegger did not accept his governor’s salary of $175,000 per year during his time in office.
loNQa TIL there's an island in Scotland owned by Tibetan Buddhists because the previous owner had a dream in which the Virgin Mary told her to give it to them.
worb8 TIL the political terms "left" and "right" first appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into conservative supporters of the old regime to the assembly president's right and the more liberal supporters of the revolution to his left