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TIL that Woody Allen has used the same typewriter for 50 years to write everything he’s done.

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nBPW TIL that the Egyptian word for cat is Mau, and is pronounced ‘Meow’
KOgn4 TIL in 1854 Commodore Perry gifted 110 gallons of American Whiskey to the Japanese emperor. That gift has since evolved into a $6 billion industry, with Japan's Suntory distillery winning 2015's World Whisky of the Year. Today, Suntory owns Jim Beam.
XXyR TIL on the morning of D-Day, J.D. Salinger landed on Omaha Beach with six chapters of his unfinished novel Catcher in the Rye in his backpack.
0bYR TIL America has almost half of the world’s civilian-owned guns, despite having 4.4% of world population
4oNw TIL in June 1939, just 3 months before Hitler would invade Poland (and England would declare war on Germany), USA had an army that was smaller than the army of Portugal