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TIL in 2019 a study was published that determined "93% of paint splatters are Valid Perl Programs"

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aBQ0 TIL: Usain Bolt ate nothing but chicken nuggets while he was in Beijing because that was “the only thing he knew” and won 3 gold medals
0dWQM TIL Old typewriters have no exclamation point! They typed an apostrophe ' over a period .
dpkE TIL President Ford survived two assassination attempts in the same month. On Sept. 5, 1975, Lynette Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, fired a pistol at the president in a crowd in Sacramento, but Ford was unharmed. On Sept. 22, Sara Jane Moore pulled a revolver on Ford in San Francisco.
R5Kkw TIL Britain used tommy guns in ww2
Me80 TIL in 1778, Thomas Jefferson authored a bill that would change the penalty for rape or sodomy from death, to castration.