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TIL Since the year 1580, there have only been 660 fatal shark attacks.

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NO1b TIL that in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, residents of Sendai received 10-30 seconds and Tokyo 60 seconds warning from Japan’s Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system before the major seismic waves hit. Alerts pushed to cellphones, TV broadcasts and web pages around the country.
dDDXZ TIL that in the UK, prostate cancer kills more patients a year than Breast Cancer
ADevw TIL Ray Kroc and Walt Disney both lied about their ages during WWI and served on the same ambulance.
5VKe9 TIL the BBC’s Ceefax officially launched on 23 September 1974, making it the world’s first teletext service. It began as an experiment to provide subtitles for the hearing impaired but expanded to include news, weather, and sports.
N74kQ TIL that the loudest word ever shouted was the word 'quiet'.