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TIL that E is the most used letter in the English language, at 13%, and Z is the least used, at 0.074%

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GYEgN TIL Kwihnai Tosabitʉ (White Eagle), a Comanche medicine man, convinced his tribe that they were invincible before a battle. After their defeat, he was blamed and thereafter known as Isatai'i (Coyote Vagina)
1a5R8 TIL Michael Jackson tried to have Eminem's 'Just Lose It' video taken down due to a diss. Jackson bought the rights to all of Eminem's works and Sony just only reclaimed the rights in 2016
0wlJp TIL in 1687 John Moore, a Black man living in England, bought his way into the elite body of the City of York, granting him the right to bear arms, fish in the city's rivers, and graze his animals on the city's meadows. He remains the only Black person awarded the Freedom of the City of York
MeZLA TIL a Canadian engineer studying anti-ballistic missile systems developed a theoretical method for launching satellites via canon. He was likely assassinated by the Mossad in 1990
OwMX TIL Pluto, by law, is still a planet in New Mexico whenever it passes over the state.