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TIL the Internet is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

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16rA4 TIL of Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African and mental calculator. When asked how many seconds a man has lived in 70 years 17 days & 12 hours, he replied 2,210,500,800. When told he was wrong, Fuller said "massa, you forget de leap year", which was correct once the seconds of the leap years were added
wol7E TIL that Phineas and Ferb holds the record for the most episodes of any Disney Channel animated series. The show ran for 222 episodes over four seasons, from 2007 to 2015.
1a0Or TIL That in Order to Avoid Predators, Turkeys Sleep in Trees at Nigh!
D1Qgv TIL It takes thousands of years for light to escape the sun, then 8.3 minutes to reach earth. The sunlight we see is thousands of years old.
W7dYN TIL the city of Gresham, Oregon has a tree serial killer dubbed "The Gresham Lumberjack" who has been going around randomly chopping down hundreds of trees in the vicinity for no known reason. The culprit still remains at large.