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TIL that Times New Roman was commissioned by a British newspaper called The Times.

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4d7X TIL French Roast Coffee is made using rejected beans and roasted so long the sugars caramelize. The term French Roast is a fancy way of saying the crappy beans.
NjRE TIL in 2001 a man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark to retrieve the severed arm of his nephew. After saving the boy the man dived back in, seized the shark and wrestled it to shore where a ranger shot it. The arm was pried from its gullet, put on ice, rushed to the hospital and successfully sewed back on
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