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TIL the Roman calendar used to have ten months and that the word October means “8th month”, November means “9th month”, and December means “10th month.”

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VPD TIL that due to exponential growth, if someone somehow folded a paper 50 times, it would reach the Sun.

p5aA TIL the only two states to have never recorded a temperature above 100 degrees F are Alaska, and.. Hawaii.

ne0Vo TIL if his Foreign Language Film Oscar is counted, Bong Joon Ho is tied as the most awarded person in a single night in Oscar history

WkBlo Today I learned Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Had two different paths. MLK was about protesting and assimilating into white culture and Malcolm X was about Just being proud to be black. Both were assassinated. MLK by a white man, and Malcolm X by his own people.

N70Ee TIL of Inmate Kevin Pullum, who escaped Twin Towers Correctional Facility by walking out of an employee exit 2 hours after being convicted of attempted murder. He used a newspaper photograph of actor Eddie Murphy to alter an identification badge.