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TIL that the worlds fastest KO in boxing happened just 4 seconds after the match started…

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ANpJw TIL that in 2011, Steve Whittaker, Researcher at IBM and Professor of Human Computer Interaction at UCSC, showed that Sorting Email into Folders is Mathematically Inferior to Searching and Scrolling.
M76V TIL on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, John Carpenter used his phone a friend lifeline to inform his dad he was going to win.
RaMa TIL in India, in order to promote lower birth rates, authorities have created a sterilization lottery. Individuals that volunteer to be sterilized are given 600 rupees and their names are put into a lottery to win televisions, motorcycles, food processors, and the grand prize, a Tata Nano.
VM9Lm TIL Charles Dickens' final novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was only half-finished when Dickens died. 3 years later, an American printer published a completed version which he claimed had been literally "ghost-written" by channeling Dickens' spirit - and it was praised by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ANmGa TIL Amazon Fire Tablets used to include access to a free, live support tech advisor through a program called “Mayday.” The program was discontinued in 2018.