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TIL Murphy’s law is named after aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr., and it’s a misinterpretation of his statement “If there’s more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he [his assistant] will do it that way.”

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p8ZnA TIL of an all-female Anti-Poaching Unit in South Africa called Black Mambas. They reduced the number of incidents of snaring and poaching by as much as 76 percent
5YZlr TIL An anthropologist created the language "Beama" for the film Alpha, about a young man separated from his tribe who befriends a wolf 20,000 years ago. She explored the research on phonetic sounds of protolanguages to determine how Beama should sound, and the director preferred more melodic-sounds
4xxN TIL National Geographic hires an archivist who has worked by himself in the magazine office basement for over 30 years. He has handled hundreds of thousands of photographs and is responsible for about eight million images in the vintage collection
ANK4o TIL An October 2017 Presidential Decree in Kazakhstan ordered that the transition from Cyrillic to a Latin script be completed by 2031. One reason is that ending the use of Cyrillic is useful in re-asserting national identity and allows for better international integration
94Kp TIL that chubby girls in Japan are called ‘marshmallows’