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TIL that the Moon is slowing down the Earth's rotation

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xERD TIL There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
QJyO6 TIL Sears once offered mail order houses. You'd select your house then Sears would ship it to you by RailRoad and you'd assemble it yourself based on the instructions
P105O TIL that clown college was actually real and in some years they had a lower acceptance rate than Harvard.
oBV6A TIL that Chicago got its "Windy City" nickname not from its windy weather but rather due to its reputation for braggadocios politicians who were "full of hot air".
VM9Lm TIL Charles Dickens' final novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was only half-finished when Dickens died. 3 years later, an American printer published a completed version which he claimed had been literally "ghost-written" by channeling Dickens' spirit - and it was praised by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle