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TiL that Noel Gallagher wrote Oasis's first hit single ("Supersonic") in half an hour during a break in a recording session while the rest of the band got Chinese takeout.

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e07WE TIL: It's a common response, due to fight-or-flight, for children to hide during house fires. Since they cannot "fight" the danger their natural response is to hide from it.
wo5QP TIL of the Siloam tunnel in Jerusalem, a 533 meter (1749 feet) long tunnel from ca. 700 BC and the oldest known tunnel in which two teams started in opposite ends and meeting in the middle.
mxVpM TIL Cheetahs can’t roar, they can only meow, because of the absence of the hyoid bone in its neck.
EByo TIL The word “coffee” was mentioned in Civil War diaries more than war, bullet, canon, mother, and Lincoln. Coffee was so important to the Union war effort the Sharps Rifle Company manufactured a carbine with a coffee grinder built in the butt stock of the gun.
KYvGB TIL that out of the approximately 50,000 known species of spiders, only about 25 (1/20 of 1%) contain venom that can, to some degree, injure humans. You should expect to find zero to three of these species in any particular locality. The term "medically significant" spiders refer to these species.