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TIL that the opposite of the word Alphabetical (A-Z) is Zetabetical (Z-A)

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Me97m TIL that President Nixon was actually against the idea of Amtrak. The only reason he signed the 1970 Railpax legislation, bringing it into existence, was because the congressional aides that drafted it told him Amtrak wouldn't survive for more than 5 years.
QJxpE TIL that Georgian troops deliberately torched Abkhazian Research Institute of History to remove any evidence that Abkhazians' lived in their historical homeland
ErLV TIL that in the 1930s Guinness was the 7th largest company in the entire world
JP7v TIL only 200 people have passed the three day master sommelier diploma exam over 40 years, making it the hardest test in the world.
wLvw6 TIL an off duty border patrol agent started an Arizona wildfire by shooting a crate of explosives in dry grass. The gender reveal party started a wildfire that consumed 47,000 acres and cost 8.2million USD to put out.