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TIL the // at the start of a URL are unnecessary, but the inventor thought they were a good idea at the time.

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GYgjj TIL: The 2012 Olympic Committee asked Music Manager Bill Curbishley to have drummer for "The Who" Keith Moon perform the opening ceremonies. Curbishley replied "If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him." Keith Moon had been dead for 34 years.
N0jE TIL a lawyer sought out a 90yo lady who agreed to give him her apartment if he paid her $500 each month for the rest of her life. She became the oldest living person ever, living for another 30 years and even outliving the lawyer who by then had paid her $180,000 – twice the value of the apartment
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p8X1N TIL that the most common noun in the English language, and the 55th most common word overall, is “time”.
JY8yk Today I learned about Parasocial Relationships, where one person pours emotions and effort into the relationship and the other doesn't know the first exists