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TIL the Canadian Association of Journalists hands out an award annually for "Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy" for hiding information from the public and this years winner is National Defence

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r6Re TIL that the owner of In-N-Out, Lynsi Synder, is the only surviving descendant of the founders of In N Out (her grandparents) and at age 31, she is worth $1.1 billion dollars
x6Vrk TIL of the "royal touch", a medieval practice wherein monarchs touched one of their subjects suffering from an illness, thereby supposedly curing them of said illness
16Re4 TIL Sigurd the Mighty, the Second Earl of Orkney who reigned between 875–892, was killed by by an infected wound after he strapped the decapitated head of Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed to his horse. The bouncing head and jaw chewed into Sigurd's leg on his victorious ride home from their fight.
gM5R4 TIL in 2018 “One of the four greatest wing chun masters” challenged an MMA fighter during live broadcast television in China. However, despite being knocked down 6 times in a row by the MMA fighter the fight was considered a draw by the referee
6EMpm TIL There are "non-sterile" topical antiseptics (skin sanitizers)