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ne8Kd TIL that double spacing after a period is no longer the standard, according to most style guides.
mx7op TIL the best-selling living author, Danielle Steel, has received "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" for her 179 books. In her romance novels, she draws from her experiences of having been married 5 times to financiers, ex-convicts, and a vintner, and having 9 children.
YkDv TIL that when they reach a certain elevation, French mountain climbers switch from the formal “vous” to the personal “tu” form of “you”, as all become equal in the face of the enormousness of nature.
negWB TIL most maps distort the size of many countries. Greenland and South America tend to look roughly the same size even though South America is 8.2 times larger. Canada is also smaller than the typical representation, and South Africa much larger.
oRWdY TIL of a road tunnel in Norway that has been closed - by a lorry-load of burning goat cheese. It burned for 5 days and got so got the stones cracked