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TIL E is not in the grading system cause there was concern it would be misinterpreted as “Excellent”

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OGP0Y TIL that only $2 was budgeted toward safety training for the crew of MV Sewol, the South Korean passenger ferry which sank in 2014 killing 306 people. This was used to pay for a paper certificate.
jNVav TIL The Queen of England has someone who breaks in her shoes for her before she wears them ,”...the shoes have to be immediately comfortable and to achieve this, a member of staff with the same size feet will trot up and down palatial corridors for her until they are suitably broken in.”
epB16 TIL of Porphyrios, a large whale that wreaked havok on Roman ships outside of Constantinople for 50 years. Emperor Justinian the Great made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to.
gky9 TIL there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
a8WoZ TIL that Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott and other members of the San Francisco 49ers are singing the backup vocals on the Huey Lewis and the News hit song “Hip To Be Square” from 1986