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TIL ‘uncopywritable’ is the longest word in the English language that doesn’t repeat a letter.

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GARpj TIL that Quasimodo in the novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame of Paris" by Victor Hugo got his name from the Latin liturgical name for the Sunday after Easter, the day he was found.
eOZD TIL Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, sexually assaulted a woman who then fell pregnant with his child. Following the child’s birth, the woman was placed in a mental asylum and Cleveland went onto to become governor of New York, known as “Grover the Good”.
7rGl7 TIL George Washington warned against political parties in his farewell address
6EbgX TIL losing weight can increase penis size.
rN9r0 TIL about Rogers' Rangers, an independent ranger company attached to the British Army during the Seven Years' War. The Rangers disbanded in 1761 only to be revived as a Loyalist force during the American Revolution, with the US Army Rangers and Queen's York Rangers claiming descent.