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TIL third-degree burns are not the worst burns; the scale goes up to 6

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OoPyL TIL there are more Norwegians in America than there are in Norway.
7jbp TIL aged five, Phil Collins entered a talent content at Butlins singing The Ballad of Davy Crockett, stopping the orchestra halfway through to tell them they were playing in the wrong key
xVpAD TIL The Author of the "Footprints in the sand" poem is disputed
b9MBE TIL about Operation Christmas Drop, a tradition since 1952 where the US Air Force drops Christmas gifts from airplanes on some Pacific Islands
rRaly TIL ain't was a socially acceptable contraction and was used by the educated and the upper-class throughout the 17th to 19th century.