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TIL Phil Collins dumped his wife of over ten years by fax.

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d8bk8 TIL of the Future Library Project which includes 100 works of literature to remain unread and unpublished until 2114. A thousand trees were planed in 2014 to supply the paper for the anthologies of these works. Each year a new notable author is chosen, most recently Ocean Vuong.
xVjQ5 TIL: The college student who coined the saying "Don't trust anybody over 30" is now 78 years old.
woD76 TIL truck-drivers are the most likely to be a serial killer. According to the FBI, there are over 400+ active serial killer truck drivers unidentified (avoiding suspicion due to state-to-state crossing). It got so bad, the FBI launched a whole operation called "Highway Serial Killer Initiative".
AK9a TIL an Australian research institute ran a four-month study “to answer the age old question, ‘Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?’”. Results: 80% of the teaspoons in the study disappeared, with the half life of the teaspoons calculated at 81 days
wowr6 TIL Tetrachromats (mostly women) can distinguish upto 100 million colours since they posses a 4th type of cone cell , apart from having the regular RBG cone cells