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TIL, 11.9% of all children in Africa are orphans

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neGGY TIL of that Al-Ma’arri was the first to write a book of divine comedy and is thought to have influenced Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
M7DMB TIL 90s dance club anthem 'Insomnia' by Faithless was inspired after Maxi Jazz had dental surgery and was up all night with pain. He wrote the lyrics in 20 minutes and laid down the vocal track in 25 minutes. The song is unique in that the main keyboard riff does not appear until nearly the end.
loQb7 TIL, that nearly 2 million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined in hands for call of a freedom from USSR
0weay TIL that the longest palindromic word included in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, meaning a knock at the door. It was coined by James Joyce in "Ulysses."
nea9d TIL 40 real squirrels were trained to crack nuts for Charlie & the Chocolate Factory instead of using CGI