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TIL that Comic Sans is one of the best fonts for people with dyslexia

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D1JGJ TIL a herpetologist is one who studies amphibians and reptiles, and there once lived a man-eating crocodile named "Gustave"
VBWe0 TIL In 1608 Johannes Kepler wrote "Somnium", the first space exploration novel. It is about daemons who transport humans to the moon for four hours when the timing of orbit is right, and they must face "extreme cold and lack of air". Kepler kept the novel a secret from the public
awnNL TIL that Alcoholics Anonymous does not have any organizational hierarchy and has been referred to as a ‘Benign Anarchy’.
ZLJ4 TIL that Sri Lanka and India were connected as recently as the 15th century by a chain of limestone shoals known as “Adam’s Bridge”
ZMo TIL Joseph Stalin’s real name is Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He adopted “Stalin” by combining ‘stal’, which is Russian for “steel” with “Lenin”.