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TIL that "poetry" is named after the writer Edgar Allen Poe.

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nKQP TIL the Safe Drinking Water Act is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks — and still be legal. Only 91 contaminants are regulated by the Act, yet more than 60,000 chemicals are used within the United States, according to EPA estimates.
kJOJ7 TIL, Simon Cowell’s first job in show business was cleaning Jack Nicholson’s ax on the set of “The Shining”
XEp0Q TIL the lead singer of German industrial metal band Rammstein was given his position after being heard singing whilst weaving baskets for a living.
DQpBr TIL: They Assyrians, of Assyrian Empire fame, founders of Akkad and Sumer, still exist. They speak one of the oldest continuously spoken and written languages and one of the oldest alphabetically written languages in the world.
XEO8D TIL that NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the tallest one-story building in the world and is large enough (volume four times of Empire State Building) that rain clouds have been known to form inside.