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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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JYDW4 TIL that in Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, certain scenes such as the forest swinging scene, Miles was animated a 12 frames a second while Peter was animated at 24 frames a second, making Miles look less smooth. This was done to show Miles' inexperience at being Spiderman compared to Peter.
XE968 TIL Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Union Army than the rest of the Confederacy combined and more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state besides Virginia.
wGa7 TIL that the pledge of allegiance in schools was conceived by a businessman who wanted to sell flags.
60VQ TIL that German soccer player Mesut Ozil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgeries for 23 children in Brazil.
XL1R TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.