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TIL that the company responsible for the Nokia ringtone was founded by Thomas Dolby.

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AEkx TIL that the brains of transgender people more closely match the brains of the gender they identify as than the one they don’t
RL6a TIL A fully loaded Kindle weighs 10^-18 grams more than an empty one
loRXK TIL About the Bath School disaster, also known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people.
XEGr6 TIL Concorde burned up 94 tonnes of fuel getting from London to New York and a whopping 2 tonnes simply taxiing onto the runway
8a7KP TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bombing a public records office in Amsterdam, in an effort to prevent Nazi identification of local Jews. His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!"