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TIL House of Cards had such an impact on British culture that some of the phrases including “You might very well think that; I couldn’t possibly comment” started to be used in the House of Commons.

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ebWg TIL that when the first phone book was published in 1878, it was just a list of people who owned telephones, with no numbers provided
x69Zw TIL that French mathematician Abraham de Moivre noticed that he slept more and more as he grew older, and predicted he would die on the day his sleep reached 24 hours. He did indeed die on that day.
d8lAr TIL 1967 Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident - On 16 March 1967, a red-hued UFO singlehandedly disabled and cut off radio communications of the entire Malmstrom AFB filled with Minuteman Nuclear ICBMs.
kvn7 TIL there was a pirate named Black Caesar, he was an African tribal war chieftain, enslaved and escaped. He later went on to build a powerful piracy ring, where he kept a harem of over 100 women, and later served as a chief lieutenant on Blackbeard’s ship “Queen Anne’s Revenge”
awDAJ TIL Robert Downey Jr's father exposed him to drugs when he was six years old and he got addicted to them by the age of eight.