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TIL that “with no special skill or expertise, Greg Packer has been quoted by media outlets nearly a thousand times… Greg’s campaign to be the most quoted man in news has been so successful that the Associated Press sent its staff a memo that essentially banned interviews with him”

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4XQ7X Today I Learned that the # symbol isn’t officially called the hashtag or the pound sign. It’s technical name is octothorpe. The “octo” means “eight” referring to how many points it has.
epgkE TIL there is an island off the coast of South Carolina with a colony 4000 rhesus monkeys run by a government research institute.
OoOd1 TIL that for a period of four years, the North Irish Horse (a British regiment) was reduced in size to a single man, Major Sir Ronald Ross
GAGOJ TIL that the white specks in a Thomas English Muffin are farina.
1ax1P TIL There was an old English settlement established on the island of Roanoke, North Carolina in the late 1500s. The governor of the colony traveled back to England, and when he returned several years later, found Roanoke deserted. No trace of the colonists were ever found.