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TIL Lisbon is the oldest city in Western Europe

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jelM TIL in order to test the “shock value” of the corpse featured in “Psycho”, Hitchcock placed it inside Janet Leigh’s dressing room and listened to how loud she screamed when she found it.
8baL TIL Of the Amber Room which was a world-famous chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. At one point considered the eighth wonder of the world the entire room went missing during WW2.
KOV1B TIL “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” is a typing drill written by a teacher named Charles E. Weller. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” is now used instead, because it exactly fills out a 70-space line.
N7ND1 TIL Shakira is an impressive polyglot. She is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Catalan
LMWr TIL 75% of fake drugs supplied world over have some origins in India, followed by 7% from Egypt and 6% from China