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TIL spaces between words in documents first appeared in Irish and Anglo-Saxon Bibles in the seventh century. Paleographers today identify the extinction of 'scriptio continua' as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era.

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9A1r TIL that in 2007 Joshua Bell pretend to be a street violinist and everyone ignored him.Just two days earlier he played in a sold out theater with each seat costing $100. The violin he used on the street was worth 3.5 million dollars.
6N1w TIL Amazon river dolphins have been observed to insert their penises into others’ blowholes, which makes this the only known example of “nasal sex”.
dbGj TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as girl suspected he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.
XKYP TIL that in Finland the cost of traffic and speed violations is calculated by the offending driver’s annual income and that someone has been fined 200,000 euros for a single speeding offense.
8NLb TIL that throughout the lifespan of a star, the energy creates 90 natural elements, until it runs out of Helium and creates Iron, which kills the star.