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TIL that the PM of Pakistan could be toppled because a document allegedly proving his innocence of corruption was written in Calibri font. Calibri was not made publicly available to the public by Microsoft until a year after the alleged creation of the document.

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6Eonm TIL that the reason we refer to people as redheads instead of more accurately as “orangeheads” is because both the fruit and the word to describe its color doesn’t enter the English language until the 1300’s.
y1wp TIL of the Holodomor, mass-deaths resulting from man-made famine in Ukraine during 1932. The highest estimates of death tolls rival the Holocaust with anywhere from 3 to 12 million killed.
8a7lG TIL the English poet Lord Byron was notorious for his robust sex life. He had raging cases of gonorrhea and syphilis by age 21, was rumored to have had a lengthy affair with his half-sister Augusta, and slept with at least 200 women (and a few men) during a three year period in Venice.
oPPr TIL that the universe is an estimated 1.4 x 10^27 meters wide. There was an attempt to make 1.0 x10^27 one “Hellameter.” So it could be said that the universe was “Hella meters wide.”
9YeB6 TIL That fungi are growing on the walls of Chernobyl's ruined nuclear reactor. They seem to absorb radiation and convert it into chemical energy for growth.