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TIL an Australian man typed every number from one to one million in words on his typewriter. It took him a total of 16 years to complete.

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6Edl TIL the White House has a Flickr account and they post behind the scenes photos all the time
6EVYY TIL that in 2005 Agostino Vespucci's notes were found, written in 1503, revealing that Leonardo Da Vinci was busy painting a "half-length portrait painting of Lisa del Giocondo", Mona Lisa.
l7adr TIL of Brandolini's law, where "the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it"
4pj5 TIL the inventor of Starlite, a material that can withstand the heat from a nuclear flash, never revealed the composition until his death.
jNjPR TIL the Toronto Public Library is the busiest urban public library system in the world