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TIL a computer program that analyses linguistics outed J.K. Rowling as the author of “The Cuckoo’s Calling”, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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WnWN TIL some slang words and phrases commonly used in the UK today originated 100 years ago in the trenches of WWI.
VMwN0 TIL aerospace engineer and author Judith Love Cohen (worked on the Hubble Space Telescope) had two well known sons. The first son, Neil Siegel, developed GPS receivers in mobile devices and the US Army's first unmanned air vehicle system. The second son is a rather famous actor... named Jack Black.
ZloY TIL Africa’s tallest apartment complex has a dark central void space, its first 3 stories filled up with accumulated garbage - it has also “developed a reputation for defenestrations – accidents, suicides and otherwise.”
X07pk TIL Beyond Good and Evil 2 has broken the record for longest game development time, at almost 16 years
NXQAM TIL "Hypochondria" simply means "Regions of the Abdomen," once thought to be the source of morbid feelings