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TIL Run is the English word with the most definitions

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MeEbB TIL if you are being questioned by authorities in the US and you choose to remain silent in response to a specific question, that silence may itself be construed as evidence of guilt, unless you specifically state that you're invoking your right to remain silent under the 5th Amendment.
X0wyj TIL that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom was only established in 2009. Before then, the final court of appeal in the country was the House of Lords, the upper house of the U.K. Parliament.
N7jX1 TIL Huygens, an ESA spacecraft, was launched from Earth on October 15, 1997 to land successfully on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. That's 1.2 billion kilometers. Its six instruments gathered atmospheric data and continued sending it 90min after touchdown.
R7ZN7 TIL that Shaquille O'Neal only made one three-point shot during his entire career.
9jNQ TIL In Japan, Karōshi (meaning death from overwork ) is such a prominent problem that the government passed a bill aimed at tackling premature death and illnesses caused by overwork, apparently the first of its kind in the world.