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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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OoOQL TIL of Globophobia or the fear of balloons. Suffers of globophobia generally fear the sound of balloons popping and will normally refuse to touch, feel or go near them for fear of popping them.
mx05P TIL in 1518 a "dancing plague" broke out in Strasbourg. Dozens of people started dancing for no apparent reason, some to the point of exhaustion and death. Some historians have attributed the plague to the accidental consumption of a fungus that contains a compound structurally similar to LSD.
AnVw TIL that Han’s full name in the Fast and Furious series was “Han Seoul-Oh”
J1Xg8 TIL that Muhammad Ali was officially knocked down four times in his ring career.