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TIL Yurii is the Slavic form of the name George

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w5ZJ TIL Mark Twain told an interviewer that he was not actually Mark Twain, but Mark Twain’s twin brother, but since his parents couldn’t tell which one drowned in the bath tub when they were babies, the parents decided that the one who lived must have been Mark.
jjrX TIL a 15-year-old blind kid was able to use his enhanced hearing to hack telephone systems by perfectly reproducing dial tones. He even went as far as faking calls to the SWAT team in order to have them surround the houses of his enemies.
BvDb TIL Eritrea, not North Korea, scores as the country with the least media freedom in the world
rN4KM TIL there have been at least 600 polar bears that have made the swim/ice drift to Iceland since the settlement of the island.
R58A8 TIL Cardinal Richelieu is credited with the invention of the table knife