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TIL, there’s a bunch of extremely useful punctuation marks that are barely ever used, such as the “Question Comma”.

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9YWlr TIL - That Parkinson's Law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization. Further, he defined a "coefficient of inefficiency" with the number of members as the main determining variable
0w45L TIL about diamond mining in India, which was the only place where diamonds were mined until 1726. Koh-i-Noor, Hope, Nizam, Jacob, Great Mughal, Orlov are some of famous diamonds from a region called Golconda(kollur) in India
oBagE TIL the the 1960s was the heyday for the Quicksand trope - almost 3% of films showed characters sinking in clay, mud, or sand.
OGoZg TIL: Kelp (seaweed) is not a plant. It's a protist.
Z0ao TIL to open the vaults at the Bank of England you need a key which is 3 feet long