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TIL that ‘jazz’ is the hardest word to guess in a game of Hangman.

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PmKw TIL that inside the conqueror Tamerlane’s tomb in modern day Uzbekistan, it read “Whoever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Two days after the exhumation of his tomb, the Nazis invaded the USSR.
Eg9ew TIL that, if a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound is a philosophical experiment around consciousness.
BYed TIL in 1964, the US government hired two average physics PhDs to design an atom bomb based solely on publicly available information to see how easy it actually is.
ADp8B TIL that uncooked spaghetti always break into more than two parts, a curious fact that already baffled Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. The riddle was only solved last year by scientists who managed to make spaghetti snap into only two parts with a trick.
NWOP TIL At age 29, before he was famous, Mark Cuban bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines for $125K to fly anywhere, anytime, even if the flight was full. Magic Johnson once had to give up his seat to him