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

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v1xVR TIL of Eilmer of Malmesbury, an 11th century English monk who built a flying machine inspired by the myth of Daedalus. He successfully flew 200 meters off the roof of his abbey before crashing because he forgot to include a tail in the design.
GAGxG TIL that in 1976, eight equatorial countries signed the Bogota Declaration in an attempt to assert sovereignty over those portions of the geostationary orbit that continuously lie over the signatory nations' territory in contradiction of the Outer Space Treaty.
p8pwp TIL about Dorothy Kilgallen, a journalist who claimed to have inside information about the death of JFK. She was drafting a chapter about JFK's death in her book when in 1965, she was found dead in her apartment under suspicious circumstances. All copies of Kilgallen's drafts were never found.
8nxZ TIL of the Grandpa Gang, a group of senior citizens who broke into a formerly impregnable bank vault in England and made off with over $20 million.
JY8yk Today I learned about Parasocial Relationships, where one person pours emotions and effort into the relationship and the other doesn't know the first exists