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TIL that Tom Hanks is a collector of manual typewriters and uses them almost daily. In August 2014, he released Hanx Writer, an iOS app meant to emulate the experience of using a typewriter.

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5Yjmr TIL about "three-quarter siblings": siblings who are genetically half way between full siblings and half siblings. This happens if they share the same father but different mothers who are sisters, or the same mother but different fathers who are brothers.
nWJr9 TIL 26 children and a bus driver were kidnapped and held for ransom in an underground trailer in California in 1976
Y7Wwv TIL the Darfur conflict in Sudan started out as a conflict between the nomadic Janjaweed and the sedentary population in Darfur over grazing grounds and arable farmland, exacerbated by dwindling rainfall and droughts.
eB1b TIL that early Renaissance artists were electrified when a young Roman fell through a cleft in a hill and rediscovered Nero’s Golden House. Subsequent tourists to the spot include Michelangelo, Raphael, Casanova, and the Marquis de Sade, all of whom left graffiti in the ruins.
pjgN TIL: There is controversy over China’s top ranking in the international student assessment. Only the three richest Chinese school districts participate in the international student assessment.