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TIL that Windows has an emoji panel if you hit the window button + the period or semicolon button, which can add even complex emojis to text. (⌐■_■)

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EyVw TIL that knighthood in Normandy had little social status prior to the crusades. Knights were poor and “land-hungry”. The title only represented professional warriors who were able to own a war horse.
y7nX TIL modern science can turn other elements into gold (in microscopic amounts)
ned8W TIL in 2002 three geriatric Catholic nuns broke into a US nuclear missile launch facility, vandalized it with hammers, and drew crosses on the silo with their own blood.
jlev TIL Sewer Socialists got their name from their perpetual boasting about the public sewer system in Milwaukee. They fought to clean up the pollution of the Industrial Revolution, setting up new sanitation systems, city-owned water and power systems, and improving education in Wisconsin.
JR7k TIL it isn’t the first time a Mayan calender has ended. In fact it has happened on September 18, 1618, after which a new calender began.