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TIL ‘Goodbye’ is a contraction of the phrase 'God be with you’, originating in 1580.

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8aNvL TIL that Eunice Shriver Kennedy, JFKs older sister, founded an athletics camp in 1962 for children with intellectual disabilities. The camp would go on to evolve into the Special Olympics.
M7Nda TIL Trota of Salerno was a 12th century female medical practitioner whose wrote on a variety of topics including gynecology and cosmetics, and her writing were used by doctors for centuries
pYMdG TIL that in 2010, 83% of Chinese people reported having trouble writing characters according to a survey done by China Youth Daily. In another survey 60% of teachers complained of declining writing ability. This phenomenon is known as "Character Amnesia/提笔忘字".
9w7d6 TIL that 27 U.S. states are at least partially north of the southernmost part of Canada.
9wB9X TIL a Troponin Protein variant only occurs in heart muscle cells and only enters your blood due to heart muscle damage. That makes Troponin-I invaluable in diagnosing heart attacks and other heart-related problems.