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TIL about Ettore Majorana, a brilliant young physicist who vanished without a trace in 1938. He was responsible for many discoveries in particle physics but never published them, leading others to get the credit.

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OpDe TIL that during WWII, a Polish Catholic social worker named Irena Sendlerowa saved 2,500 Jewish children from death. That’s more than the 1,200 saved by Oscar Schindler. She was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1965 as one of the Righteous Among Nations (a non-Jew who saved Jews during the Holocaust).
N7kDN TIL: John Mulaney used to be neighbors with the 'Cannibal Cop' from New York.
698A7 TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.
JYQel TIL that the Canadian term “Hoser” originated from a losing hockey team’s duty to hose down the pond or rink. It’s synonymous with loser.
mx1vp TIL that the UK is divided into counties and when a county is rural, or non-metropolitan it is a county shire. Most county shires have a -shire after their name (ex. Yorkshire)