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TIL that the first recorded use of OMG was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill

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BrYgb TIL of Junaid, an orphan from Bangladesh who lived in the streets surviving on scrap food, put himself through school by working as a carpenter, fisherman, almost died in an accident, worked at a brick factory while recovering from it and was accepted into a top engineering school
gMEbW TIL that Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi has a sensory condition called synesthesia that allows him to visualize music.
Brajb TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
mxQrO TIL that the capital of modern Macedonia was the capital of the Dardanian kingdom and was never part of ancient Macedonia.
jNZyp TIL the former columns of the U.S. Capitol building still stand, now in the U.S. Arboretum in NE D.C.