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TIL: There is a word for the day after tomorrow: Overmorrow

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P1PaO TIL that Steven Spielberg wanted to make an animated adaption of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats but was later canceled
D1kaD TIL that it took 80 years from the invention of the telephone for call centres to become a mainstream part of business
WkaDB TIL that "Superpredators" was a term coined by social scientists in the 90s to describe a coming wave of youth violence in America that led to harsher punishments for children especially those who were African American. However, the theory was proven to be flat out wrong.
5VWOQ TIL that the first-ever recorded use of "OMG" was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.
69Xdw TIL King Alfred was the only English king to be named “the Great” for fighting off viking invasions and introducing social reforms, and he did it all while suffering from Crohn's Disease ·