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TIL that Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time (2 billion books sold), and her estate claims she ranks 3rd overall, behind Shakespeare's works and the Bible. She is the most-translated author with works in at least 103 languages. "And Then There Were None" is her best selling book

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7J0Z TIL “Boko Haram” means “Western education is forbidden” in English. Mohammed Yusuf, the group’s first leader, has stated that he does not believe that the Earth is a sphere, nor does he believe that evaporation causes rain.
mxjpR TIL That I Wouldn't Notice if My Calculator Was Lying to Me
GYYOE TIL that faking the moon landing in 1969 would have been harder than actually going to the moon
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1aGVr TIL that because of the Universe's expansion, a signal from an event happening at present will never reach the Earth if the event is more than 16 billion light years away