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TIL there's no substantive evidence for our attention span getting shorter

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vej7 TIL that there is a simple version of Wikipedia, called the Simple English Wikipedia, which uses only simple words and grammar and is for people who are learning English and also for people who want to understand something fast.
4kB05 TIL the official short name of the Czech Republic is ‘Czechia’. The use of the short form "Czechia" has increased in web searches from less than 1% in 2015 to more than 16% in 2023.
VBpBD TIL Around 2200 BC, a drought lasting about 100 years started that has been hypothesized to have caused the collapse of the first generation of human civilizations, including those in the Indus Valley, Old Kingdom Egypt, Liangzhu Civilization in China, and the Akkadian Empire in Sumeria.
X0wWP TIL: Levi’s uses a blank tab on 10% of its products to protect its trademark of the tab shape.
nW6dY TIL that the US Army is exempt from OSHA, but implements its own standard called the "Army Safety Program" which in many cases provides more protections for workers than OSHA does.