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TIL strengths (9 letters) is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.

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R710Q TIL Marie Antoinette built an entire fake village, complete with a working farm and fake villagers, in the backyard of Chateau de Versailles, so she could pretend to be a "peasant" whenever she felt like it.
X1Mk TIL that in an attempt to convince the jury that he was insane, John Hinckley Jr.’s lawyer actually concluded his defense by playing the movie Taxi Driver for the jury.
yVjjM TIL American writer Cormac McCarthy wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.
WyXL TIL 48 percent of black women have herpes.
MejAW TIL that a jury of 12 black and 12 white men was recruited by United States Circuit Court in preparation for the trial of Jefferson Davis the president of the Confederation. In the end no trials took place, one reason being that if lost the decision could validate that secession was constitutional.