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TIL Blue is the world’s most popular colour
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TIL because of their massive balloons during Thanksgiving parades, Macy's is the second biggest consumer of Helium in the world after the US Military.
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TIL That a deep/ hard cough can actually cause your body to itch… on purpose!
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TIL: The world's coldest marathon was held in Yakutia, Siberia. 2022's winner ran it in 3h 22m; the temperature was -53°C
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TIL that the Turkish F-Keyboard was designed using studies on bone and muscle anatomy of the fingers and letter frequencies in the Turkish language. With this scientific preparation, Turkey has broken 14 world records in typewriting championships between 1957 and 1995
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TIL that the word, “Robot” comes from the Czech word for slave, “Robotnik”. The word first appeared in a translation of Czech playwright Karel Čapek’s 1920 sci-fi drama titled “RUR”.