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TIL the "Roman" in "Times New Roman" refers to the fact that the characters aren't italicized or bold

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X0nJ6 TIL in 1993 Donald Wyman amputated his left leg below the knee with a pocket knife after it got stuck under a large tree during a logging accident where he bled profusely for an hour & feared he'd die. However, he was even able to keep his leg after firefighters retrieved it & surgeons reattached it
KBnQ TIL EINSTEIN once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.
KJ6w TIL HBO hired 160 lawyers to work on their Scientology documentary that premiers tonight in order to prepare for legal attacks from the “church”
epeb5 TIL the second highest scoring fighter ace with 301 kills, Gerhard Barkhorn, crashed a prototype British Harrier jet fighter in 1965. When being helped from the wreckage he is said to have commented, "Drei hundert und zwei [302]!"
pKlp TIL Quentin Tarantino is a huge Luke Cage fan, and considered making a film about him but ended up making Pulp Fiction instead