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TIL that the little dot on a lowercase “i” or “j” is called a “tittle”. There are ten tittles in this title.

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NY0N TIL: The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to provide contact information for students to military recruiters
myJy TIL that for 150 years, whenever a new heir was born to the Annheiser-Busch brewing family, they would be fed five drops of Budwiser before even having their mothers milk
yVJEV TIL Lockheeds “Rosetta Stone” breakthrough on stealth came from a math equation - courtesy of the Soviet academic Pyotr Ufimtsev who published his equation. The Soviets were not even working on stealth tech at the time.
lAra TIL that the US allows US chickens to be shipped to China for processing and then shipped back to the US without notifying consumers the chicken came from China.
GALYN TIL that William C. Minor, an M.D. from Yale and schizophrenic, killed a man and then became a brilliant linguistic scholar and a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, while in an asylum for the insane