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TIL Seattle receives more sunlight than Tokyo, Milan, or Paris

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KOVYJ TIL of Oxdown, a fictitious village trainee journalists would write about in exams. In 2006 it was decided the exams would use real places instead, and so Oxdown was destroyed in a series of deadly explosions. Trainees had to report on the explosions.
d8plB TIL Bald faced lie isn't a mispronunciation or misunderstanding of bold faced lie. They are both sayings and mean different things.
XEMnR TIL of the Goldwater Rule, a rule that prohibits psychiatrists from giving professional opinions about public figures whom they have not examined in person
W7QeN TIL Australia nearly became a republic in a 1999 referendum but was defeated 45/54
e0Agb TIL that to clean up after using the lavatory, ancient Romans used a "tersorium", a sponge on the end of a long stick that was shared by everyone in the community. When not in use, the stick stayed in a bucket of vinegar or seawater in the communal bathroom.