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TIL On average, every adult human body contains two to six pounds of bacteria.

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xVoBb TIL tarot decks were originally used to play various card games similar to bridge, and are still used this way in parts of Europe. They did not become widely associated with the occult until more than 300 years after they were invented.
6ERPY TIL Ian Fleming took the name for his James Bond character from an ornithologist James Bond. He explained to the real Bond's wife he needed unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name. The real Bond did not learn of the identity theft until the early 1960s when the 007 books became popular.
N7446 TIL Steinway & Sons (1853) pianos are handcrafted and take a year to build. The company's 600,000th piano was built in 2015 with an inlaid Fibonacci design in the lid. It is valued at $2.4 million.
PMnO TIL that in Ojibwe (a Native American language), “Kansas” translates to “Little Hell-Hole”.
da79 TIL in 1947, a British South American Airways flight was flying normally over the Andes Mnts., 4 minutes from landing, but then it sent a morse code message ‘STENDEC’ three consecutive times, then vanished, the wreckage not to be found for 50 years. To this day, what 'STENDEC’ meant is a mystery.