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TIL that 0.5% to 0.7% of all words spoken are swear words
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TIL Sir Edward Kelley, an English alchemist, and John Dee, an English Mathematician and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, exchanged wives because of a conversation they claim to have had with angels
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TIL: In January 2012, 150 employees of Foxconn, Taiwanese technology company and contract manufacturer for products including the iPhone, iPad and Playstation 4, threatened to commit mass suicide in protest of their working conditions
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TIL there is an 1986 episode of Twilight Zone directed by Wes Craven and written by George R.R. Martin
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TIL a pro-gay film called “Different From the Others” was released in 1919 Germany. It is thought to be the earliest film ever made to show a sympathetic portrayal of homosexuality
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TIL In 1972 Jackie Kennedy Onassis was photographed while sunning herself in the nude on husband Aristotle Onassis' private Greek island by a photographer using a telescopic lens on a fishing boat. Larry Flynt purchased them for his Hustler magazine in 1975 and it launched his magazine sales.