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TIL A moment was a medieval measurement of time and corresponded to 90 seconds.

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OXWR TIL the name of the Syrian hamster roughly translates to “mister saddlebags” in the local Arabic dialect due to the amount of storage space in their cheek pouches.
meMx TIL the Jimmy Carter Administration installed Solar Panels on the White House to heat water, then the Ronald Reagan Administration took them down and cut tax credits to renewable energy research.
69MDY TIL that Aretha Franklin's handwritten will was found in a spiral notebook wedged between couch cushions months after she died, but a court ruled it was valid
69KDQ TIL In 1935, while heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt was in the hospital for an appendectomy, her mother convinced the doctors to sterilize her. It just so happened that there was a clause in Ann’s father’s will stating that if she had no heirs, her portion of his estate would revert to her mother.
gMKQW TIL Parisians used to hang out in the morgue situated near the Norte Dame. The macabre attraction lured as much as 40.000 visitors per day.