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TIL that a Moms for Liberty member got a book about banning books from school libraries in the school libraries of Florida's Indian River County school district

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wL9M6 TIL about "lonely negatives". These are words with common prefixes or suffixes such as "dis-", "in-", "un-", "-less" but they don't have positive counterparts such as the words "disgust", "disappoint", "reckless" - they don't have "gust", "appoint", or "reckful" as their opposites.
VMB9G TIL just after the big bang there was a giant cold spot in the universe which cannot be explained, but may have been caused by our universe colliding with another.
VAYp TIL Sylvester Stallone’s crooked mouth is due to paralysis of the lower left side of his mouth, from birth complications. Furthermore, actor Milo Ventimiglia suffers from the same problem and subsequently starred as Stallone’s on screen son in Rocky Balboa.
811G TIL: that there is a town called Redditch. Redditch once produced 90% of the world’s needles.
OKYX TIL that American soldiers used the ace of spaces as a terror weapon in the Vietnam War. They would leave the card on the bodies of killed Vietnamese and would litter the forested grounds with the card. The card was used so much that Bicycle was asked to produce crates full of this one card.