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TIL There are generally two definitions of "literally": one which is to take something in a literal sense or manner, the second which is to take things figuratively. It's been defined this way for hundreds of years.

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wgW TIL there is a section running across the entire southeast US where blacks outnumber the whites called the “Black Belt”
4kJv5 TIL in 2022 an unmanned submarine conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of the underside of West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, uncovering 1,300-ft-long structures and complex ice formations
oBGVE TIL that in 2015, two day care teachers were charged with child abuse for running a toddler Fight Club in Cranford, NY, where they'd pit children aged 4 to 6 against each other, record it while quoting the book and movie and post it on Snapchat.
GYkwg TIL I learned that if the entire history of Earth is displayed with one year in a calendar dinosaurs would get extinct on December 25th and the first homo sapiens would appear around 11:36 pm on December 31th.
KyOQ TIL of the Little Dodo bird, a smaller relative of the extinct Dodo, which is still alive today, but once again being pushed to the brink of extinction