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TIL that every single tweet you’ve sent is now part of the Library of Congress. Twitter agreed to provide them with every tweet ever sent & continues to supply tweets to the Library’s archive on an ongoing basis.

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rWR0 TIL Humans can survive indefinitely on a diet of just potatoes and butter
GYAV1 Proving that it still has power, over the past few years, Mount St. Helens has had "a baby volcano growing in its crater," says Stephanie Grocke, a volcanologist at the Smithsonian Institution and a National Geographic explorer.
rRnyd TIL about unofficial medical jargon. FLK- "Funny Looking Kid” is one of the most common abbreviations used. FLK does not mean that the child looks comical but it refers to the child looking different from the norm.
W7X0X TIL in 1986 the city of Cleveland, OH attempted to break a world record releasing the most helium balloons at one time and ended up killing 2 men.
wa06 TIL Jack Daniels employees get a free bottle of Jack on the first payday of each month.