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TIL 1977 was the year of the last execution by guillotine --Hamida Djandoub in France

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MeNOA TIL that the last surviving member of a species is called and Endling
j65M TIL that the CEO of LifeLock had his identity stolen 13 times after making his Social Security number public.
0pBN TIL that the mysterious squiggly things floating in our eyes are called “floaters”. They are shadows cast on our retina by small strands of protein inside our eyes.
P1e4E Today I learned the power symbol we see on computers (a circle with a line on the top) is a combination of the number zero and one, replicating the binary state a computer can be in: on or off.
eJ0D TIL Marlon Brando’s final acting job was voicing Don Corleone in The Godfather video game released in 2006. His recordings were eventually cut because his oxygen tank made too much noise during the audio recordings