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TIL a square with rounded corners is called a squircle

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OovKe TIL Hattie McDaniel's Oscar for "Gone with the Wind," the first ever won by an African-American, has been missing for decades. Rumored locations of the award range from a misplaced storage box at Howard University to the bottom of the Potomac River
eBEg TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 5 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize
Y7YdA TIL scientists achieved the first-ever rhino IVF pregnancy, offering new hope for saving the nearly extinct northern white rhino.
vrA7 TIL the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (the largest study of its kind) concluded that human actions are depleting Earth’s natural capital in such a way that the ability of the planet’s ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted.
aw00Z TIL that in medieval years, an hour was divided into 4 puncta (quarter-hours), 10 minuta, or 40 momenta. So if you asked someone to "wait a moment", turns out that you really asked them to wait for about 90 seconds.