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TIL There are no words with a silent v. This is the only letter, in all accents, that refuses to be silent.

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16lOO TIL that Central Asia has a variety of Mandarin Chinese that is written in the Cyrillic Alphabet. It is regarded as its own separate language called "Dungan"
0waGM TIL that one of the catalysts for the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custers Last Stand) was the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the influx of white miners who disregarded the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868).
6Q88 TIL that Garret Morgan, the son of former slaves with only an elementary school education, invented a belt fastener for sewing machines, the first human hair straightening solution, an early form of the gas mask (used in WWI), and traffic signal technology (which he sold to GE for $40K in 1923).
yOpl TIL former NFL quarterback Jon Kitna teaches high school algebra and helps turn around troubled students in what’s being called “the Kitna effect”
AN5mw TIL of Helen Viola Jackson, the last Civil War widow, who died only in 2020, aged 101 - Born on August 3rd, 1919, she married 93 year old James Bolin, a Union soldier, at just 17 in 1936, with an age different of 76 years. Her husband died just 3 years later, in 1939.