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TIL your computer is more likely to get infected visiting a religious website than an adult website.

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4rgX TIL George Harrison could play 26 instruments
6EmVZ TIL on the show "Lassie".. Timmy wasn't always named Timmy.. He was originally named Jeff.. and he NEVER actually fell in a well..
KOP5E TIL that a woman won $10,000 for reading the terms of an insurance policy. The company included a clause in the terms indicating that the first person to email them would win the prize. Other companies have included clauses requiring people to community service for connecting to free Wi-Fi.
neAgB TIL that the reason why there are virtually only two words for "tea" around the world ("tea" and "cha") is related to how tee is transported to the corners of the world: areas where tea is traded on land calls it "cha", where it is shipped by sea calls it "tea".
GAo1G TIL A 20mm Kellner eyepiece through 2 inch aperture solar telescope produces 18x view of the Sun. A refractor telescope shows slightly sharper views of the sun’s disk than reflector telescopes, showing detail in and around sunspots