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TIL the Thousand Character Classic is a poem that has a thousand Chinese characters, each used exactly once, and rhymes

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RYKQ TIL on September 2, 1666 a house caught fire in London. Mayor Thomas Bloodworth refused to permit pulling down surrounding buildings to prevent spread saying that, “a woman might piss it out,” and returned home to sleep. The fire then destroyed more than 75% of the city.
WkNdB TIL A London Metropolitan Police Officer went undercover as a spy to infiltrate activism groups. He got married and had a child under his fake identity and then abandoned them both after 4 years. He then returned back to his real identity where he already had a different wife and 2 other children.
pYBkA TIL that everyone has a dominant eye, which is usually the same as their dominant hand.
VMWyp TIL it costs more than one cent to physically create one cent.
nEjo TIL Astronomers have found a mind-bogglingly large structure – so big it takes light 10 billion years to traverse