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TIL There is footballer named TIL

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nevK7 TIL Cantonese is considered to be a conservative dialect, its sound system having preserved the final consonants and tones of the Tang Dynasty literary standard.
KOyPQ TIL The consultant hired on Star Trek: Voyager for the development of the Native American Chakotay character had previously been exposed as having faked his Native American ancestry to sell books.
WNy8 TIL the fastest speed a human being has ever attained was when Apollo 10 returned from the moon at 24,791 mph (36,360 feet/second). This is slightly faster than going down to the Marianas Trench in one second.
x6pKb TIL that emergency contraceptive pills aren’t abortifacients in any way you would define a start of pregnancy
X0nXQ TIL: That there are over 219 million synthetic chemicals, 5000 of which are classified as high-production-volume chemicals