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TIL “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all letters in alphabetical order.

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Lp4m TIL Scientists have developed a way to convert urine in to a renewable energy source. But there is some way to go before the idea is embraced more widely.
ADArw TIL in 2016, scientists discovered an Arctic Tern flew 59,650 miles in the course of a year, from an island off the coast of England to Antarctica, and then back again. It was the longest migration ever recorded—the equivalent of flying around the circumference of the Earth twice, plus 10,000 miles.
mxa0x TIL Chien-Shiung Wu's “Wu experiment” won Nobel prize, but it was given to her male colleagues, completely ignoring the work she put on it.
wLL6M TIL that Nelsan Ellis, who played Martin Luther King Jr. in Lee Daniels' The Butler, died in 2017 at 39, the same age as Martin Luther King Jr.
oBAp7 TIL - German saboteurs blew up a 15 tons of gunpowder on a barge in Seattle, 1915.