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TIL Someone really used to live like Robinson Crusoe

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Z8Bk4 TIL a Hapax legomenon is a word or expression that occurs only once in the entire written record of a language. For example, Slæpwerigne, "sleep-weary", occurs exactly once in the Old English corpus, in the Exeter Book.
78EX TIL Ghengis Khan and his armies killed 9-11% of the entire world’s population
WkwDY TIL about The Streisand effect (named after Barbara Streisand)- a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.
69B1Z TIL The Steve Wilkos Show is still on the air, and he's hosted almost as many episodes (2,964) as Jerry Springer hosted of his show (3,146)
VBXQ4 TIL Ancient Greeks referred to Subsaharan Africans as Aethiopians, meaning “burnt-face people”. Aethiopia referred to all of the inhabited land found to the south of Egypt. The Greek historian Herodotus stated, “the men are taller, handsomer, and longer lived than anywhere else.”