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TIL that fingernails grow 3 times faster than toenails

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KO41w TIL that there is a town in West Virginia, USA named "Hundred" for centenarian Henry "Old Hundred" Church. He was a British soldier under Cornwallis who was captured and stayed in the area until his death in 1860 at 109. He was born c. 1751 and was about 25 when the DOI was signed.
Z84pp TIL that Lady Gaga admited that Kiss FM was the only radio station to correctly censor the song during the chorus when she replaces "poker face" with "fuck her face". Although not in the official lyrics, the switch can be heard every second repetition of the phrase during the chorus.
EggVd TIL that the mobile gaming market ($86.3 billion) is bigger than the PC gaming market ($32.4 billion) and the console market ($51.2 billion) combined.
D1xgJ TIL that the videogame publisher Bethesda offered the makers of Fallout New Vegas a 1 Million dollar bonus if the game scored a review of 85 or higher on Metacritic- the game released and got an 84, and no bonus was given.
XkZR TIL for every American soldier killed by enemy combatants, approximately 25 other soldiers ended their own lives.