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TIL "Qi" is the most commonly played word in Scrabble tournaments.

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8y8b TIL that ancient Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria invented the first vending machine which dispensed holy water after you put in a coin. He also invented the first steam engine and the first wind powered machine, 2000 years before the industrial revolution.
QNbG6 TIL that amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann named his son Agamemnon in honour of an Ancient Greek funerary mask he discovered in 1876, which he erroneously claimed belonged to the legendary king of the same name.
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