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TIL a word-unit palindrome is a type of palindrome in which the unit of reversal is the word instead of the letter – for example: “Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?”.

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AN7ma Today I learned that, before 1960, diving boards were usually 3 meters high or 6 meters high, rather than 1 meter high or 3 meters high like today.
GARMg TIL that After a large meal, a male lion can sleep for up to 24 hours.
b6BBQ TIL narcissists are more likely to be happier then regular people
ADKK7 TIL that Helicopter money is a proposed unconventional monetary policy, sometimes suggested as an alternative to quantitative easing (QE) when the economy is in a liquidity trap (when interest rates near zero and the economy remains in recession)
R7ab8 TIL In 2001, a seven foot bull shark bit off a boy’s arm. His uncle not only saved the boy, but dived in after the shark, wrestled it to shore where the shark was shot, retrieved the boy’s arm and it was sewn back on in the hospital.