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TIL, globally, people average 6 hours and 58 minutes of screen time per day.

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69Q57 TIL a BBC study found that socks improve ability to orgasm by 30 percent
7r6Dx TIL that the strongest recorded hurricane/typhoon/cyclone in history in terms of 1-minute average wind speed, 2015's Hurricane Wilma at 215 mph (345 km/h) in the east Pacific, formed and then dissipated in a span of just 5 days.
gMAVW TIL in 1924, a Russian scientist started blood transfusion experiments, hoping to achieve eternal youth. After 11 blood transfusions, he claimed he had improved his eyesight and stopped balding. He died after a transfusion with a student suffering from malaria and TB (The student fully recovered).
YdMv TIL in 1976 a novel about “a lonely librarian in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear” won the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award
loBGK TIL: A man was jailed for 28 years for a murder he didn’t commit until it was discovered the forensics were wrong. They misidentified a hair found on the crime to be his, when it was a dog’s.