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

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pYyB4 TIL St. Clare of Assisi, who died in the year 1253, is the patron saint of television. It's because when she was too ill to attend Mass, she had reportedly been able to see and hear it on the wall of her room.
kOOjE TIL of the Cistus plant which can self-ignite on fire under hot dry conditions, due to oils in its leaves.
6NP8 TIL on his deathbed the writer/philosopher Voltaire responded to the priest asking him if he renounced Satan for his Last Rites, he responded,“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.”
OGEKR Today I learned that the beautiful fine sand in the Maldives and other tropical locations is basically parrot fish poop
l7eWK TIL that the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla, which is a subspecies of the western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla