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TIL Lloyd Robertson is the longest-serving network news anchor in television history!

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5VwXB TIL that Green Bay, Wisconsin’s official seal has the Packers logo
9kMD TIL In 2006, Terry Gilliam (Monty Python member and director) renounced his American citizenship. As a result, Gilliam is only permitted to spend 30 days per year in the United States.
jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.
Dwnp TIL when you have red itchy swore eyes after swimming its caused from urine mixed with chlorine, not chlorine alone.
VMyWk TIL the Inka never developed writing but instead had a system of tying knots called khipu in which the color, direction and structure of the knots communicated different information. While most of it is numerical, fully cracking the code reveal a phonetic khipu alphabet with records of history.