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TIL There is a word called “Tittynope” which means: A small quantity of anything left over. This word is no.11 on a list of the most unusual words according to culturesconnection.com.

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95WX TIL President McKinley was assassinated 113 years ago today. Shot by a crazed Polish anarchist, the the second bullet went through the President’s stomach and lodged near his back. The doctors didn’t find the bullet and McKinley died of gangrene eight days later.
wLkl8 TIL Cancer death rates have dropped 26% since 1991, with many major forms reduced by 39 to 52%. This has saved nearly 2.4 million lives.
ne1y7 TIL That domesticated blueberries are only just over 100 years old and were thought to be impossible to domesticate until it was discovered they thrive in acidic soil
Y7Z5x TIL there are, as of 2011, 41,429 native speakers of Ladin, a Romance language mainly spoken in northern Italy’s Dolomite Mountains.
X0jbE TIL that in ancient Rome, when a military leader celebrated a triumph, a privileged slave stood behind him in the chariot and repeatedly whispered, “Memento mori” (“Remember you will die”) to keep his ego in check, even at the height of his glory.