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TIL Some dialects of English use the adverb anymore in an affirmative context

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4XZvJ TIL that color photography has existed since 1907. The "autochrome" process used millions of microscopic red, green and blue colored potato starch grains that filtered light before it reached the emulsion on a glass plate.
AXgx TIL in 1998, 90% of the pagers in the US were disabled because of a solar flare
VbmG TIL when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18, he found out that all his money ($68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued that that every dollar a child makes before the age of 21 belongs to his parents. Coogan’s law was then passed to protect child actors.
oRNwR TIL that if we took all the surface water on earth and made it into a sphere, its diameter would only be 860mi or the distance between Salt Lake City Utah and Topeka Kansas.
0Kxj TIL of Beelzebufo, or “Devil Frog,” a prehistoric frog that weighed 10+ pounds and could have eaten baby dinosaurs.