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TIL that Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words, including “Swagger”

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yBdM TIL in 1917, WWI U.S. troops in Paris stopped at the grave (composed of soil from the U.S.) of French Revolutionary War Hero, Marquis de Lafayette, and proclaimed “Lafayette, we are here!”
kOJ81 TIL that 9000 meters of single strand silk weighs about 1 gram. It is also known as a Denier and used to define how fine a thread is.
AjJn TIL a Senator committed suicide at his Capitol Hill desk after being blackmailed for his son’s homosexuality.
WkNYB TIL after slavery in the United States was outlawed by the 13th Amendment in 1865, the Abolitionist newspaper The Liberator reorganized itself as a general news magazine and is now known as The Nation.
KOwMR TIL: The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901. ] It is often cited as evidence for the existence of planned obsolescence in later-produced light bulbs.