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TIL that Hello became a common greeting as a result of invention of the telephone.

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66wZ TIL The book “Toons That Teach”, a text used by youth groups to teach teenagers about spirituality, recommends the Futurama episode, “Godfellas” in a lesson teaching about “Faith, God’s Will, [and] Image of God”.
P1lbZ TIL that if you get both triple letters on one word in scrabble, you multiply the score for the word by 9, known as the triple-triple
7r5X7 TIL that in 1993, scientist Cesare Emiliani proposed switching the Gregorian calendar to the Holocene calendar which would account for the entirety of human civilization, starting 12,000 years ago at Year 0. Making the current year 12021 HE (Human Era).
e0wRJ TIL roughly 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea every year. Most end up on the ocean floor, while a few end up washing ashore.
6Vxw TIL that there is video footage of the iconic image of Kim Phuc getting napalmed