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TIL that smoke detectors need to be replaced every 10 years

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OoZNL TIL that in 1937 a football match was interrupted due to fog. But the goalkeeper stood there for 20 minutes without knowing it.
JYvEB TIL Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, was a critic of the Armenean genocide that Turkey today denies, writing "millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacre".
b9GjE TIL of remittance men - useless sons of Victorian British upper middle class families being given an allowance by their own family to be as far away from family as possible, typically settling in very remote parts of the British Empire.
wLwDo TIL the “Q” in Q-tip stands for “quality”.
Z8dxo TIL that German renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer's father came from Hungary and was originally named Albrecht Ajtósi, and since Ajtósi means "doormaker", Dürer (originally spelled Türer) is the German translation of that name in Nuremburg dialect.