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TIL when the dunce cap was created by 13th century theologian John Duns Scotus, it was initially conceived as “a reverse funnel for knowledge,” and the hat remained a symbol of intelligence until the 1500s.
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TIL that the English language doesn’t have any official authority or academy
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TIL the word asterisk derives from the Greek asteriskos, meaning “little star", and the symbol has been used by writers to mark sections in text since at least the Second Century BC.