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TIL that TIL stands for "today i learned" and not "throwback in life"

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KvdQ TIL that a man named Curtis Gokey sued the city of Lodi when a city employee ran over his car with a city dump truck. Who was the employee? The same Curtis Gokey
7aPL TIL Isaac Asimov was such a prolific and wide ranging writer he had work published in all 10 major categories of the Dewey decimal system
QNXbX TIL that the average cumulus cloud (typically seen in fair weather) contains 1.1 million pounds of water droplets, that's the equivalent weight of five adult blue whales (the largest animal on the planet)
nM4d TIL that “fancy” ketchup is a USDA regulated term that indicates higher concentrations of tomato solids.
mxBGo TIL about crossed letters, they consist of two different sets of writing, one written horizontally and the other perpendicularly. This was done during the early days of the postal system in the 19th century to save on expensive postage charges and to save paper.