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TIL Amazon created an entirely new font called “Bookerly” specifically designed to be easy to read on Kindles and other digital screens.

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LQrmp TIL a high-ranking dinosaur ant who challenges her queen but fails will be immobilized, publicly chastised for several days, join the working class and lose all hope of ever ruling or reproducing
oQrr TIL some animals like frogs and lizards have a third eye, a very small grey oval between their two regular eyes, which functions as a photoreceptor connected directly to the pineal gland to tell their brain when it is day or night while the regular eyes are closed
ADEDo TIL that after Hurricane Isaаc, an American Rеd Crоss official sent out 80 empty or near-empty trucks and emergеncy rеsponse vеhicles (ERVs) to drive around and look like they were giving reliеf - and after Hurricane Sаndy, 15 ERVs (40% of the available ERVs) were assіgned to publіc relаtions
8eBN8 TIL that Interstate H-3 is the most expensive interstate per mile. It cost over $1.3 billion dollars for only 16.1 miles, totaling to over $80 million dollars spend per mile.
D1jgY TIL that M&M's are made with natural colouring in the EU but not in the US.