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TIL Irish monks invented spacing between written words.

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rNwAW TIL that Hitler never called the Nazi symbol a "swastika" and called it a "hakenkreuz" (hooked/twisted cross) instead. Many Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists have advocated for adopting hakenkreuz in the English language to avoid confusion
kagd TIL Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas
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