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TIL that "Zyzzyva" is the last word in many English-language dictionaries, and refers to a genus of tropical American weevils

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LQ67d TIL “clinically proven” just means consumers who tried the product reported it does what it claims to do.
Z4XG TIL that Fear of Snakes are Hard-Wired in the Brains of Monkeys and Humans
x6P5B TIL in the Salem Witch Trials, none of the guilty were burned at the stake -- 19 were hung and 1 was pressed to death by stones -- and 6 of the 20 killed were men
nWeWr TIL that in 1965, artist Andy Warhol made an 8-hour, B&W silent film called “Empire” that consisted of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building. It had no characters or narrative, and Warhol stated that the purpose of the film was “to see time go by.”
Ma60 TIL Italian Emma Morano, who is 117 years old, is the last living person born in the 1800s (Nov. 29, 1899)