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TIL the on-line cheating website, AshleyMadison.com, was named after the two most popular names for baby girls in 2002, the year it was founded.

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P1EAZ TIL of the Hell Creek Formation, a band of 66-million-year-old rocks that records the last million years of the dinosaurs’ reign and is found in parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota. It’s where the T Rex was discovered in 1902
78kQ7 TIL that the word "leopard" originally referred not to the leopard but to the cheetah, which at the time was incorrectly believed to be the hybrid offspring of a lion and a "pard" (i.e. a lion and what we now call a leopard)
nOMW TIL the largest cockfighting takedown and rooster rescue in New York State history where 3,000 birds were seized and more than 70 people rounded up was called “Operation Angry Birds”.
KYN99 TIL Of the 45 persons who have served as President of the United States, at least half have displayed proficiency in speaking or writing a language other than English. Of these, only one, Martin Van Buren, learned English as his second language; his first language was Dutch.
GAAA1 TIL the hill in the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany is largely made out of rubble from the remains of Munich after the Second World War