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TIL that a 6th grader found a way for the government to save $136M annually. The solution was to change the font used in papers.

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AvN7 TIL of Argos, Odysseus’s dog in the works of Homer. After 20 years of waiting for Odysseus to return home, the dog is the only one to recognize him, he wags his tail and Odysseus sheds a tear, and Argos dies after meeting him one last time.
9O7 TIL Seth Rogan wrote and has begun filming a movie in which all the actors play themselves, set during a party in the midst of the apocalypse…and Emma Watson is in it.
W7oAo TIL that in 2017, a 28-year-old Wichita resident was shot and killed in a hoax swatting due to a online argument surrounding a $1.50 wager in Call of Duty. The victim was not part of the argument and was simply living at the address one of the parties falsely claimed as theirs.
NAn8 TIL a Wikipedia hoaxster wrote that Amelia Bedelia was based on a maid from Cameroon, a claim so believable, it stayed on the site for 5 years and fooled the author’s nephew.
eOG4 TIL that in 1971 the body of Xin Zhui, a Chinese noblewoman who died in 163 BCE, was discovered remarkably preserved. Her skin was soft and moist, with muscles that still allowed for her arms and legs to flex at the joints.