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TIL CERN scientists presented the Higgs Boson findings in Comic Sans

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7Dkx TIL By the mid-1990s Jean Claude Van Damme developed a cocaine habit, on which he spent up to $10,000 a week, and consuming up to 10 grams per day by 1996.
JYKGB TIL that the alphabet (the Latin alphabet) derived from the Etruscan alphabet, which came from the Greek alphabet, which came from the Phoenician alphabet, which came from another early alphabet, which was based on Egyptian hieroglyphics
oBWwA TIL Flexitarianism / Semi-Vegitarianism is a movement trying to encourage people to eat more plant based diets without going strict anti-meat etc.
p84XO Today I learned that, in the 1920's, a new "fixed length" calendar with 13 months of 28 days each, was voted in by a League of Nations special committee. Although this calendar never gained widespread adoption, it remained the official calendar of the Kodak company until 1989.
XEKYR TIL Golden Bat was one of the earliest superheroes in fiction; predating Batman & Superman, and was an 10,000 magic Atlantean skeleton who fought evil with a cane.