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5Agn TIL letters of the alphabet being referred to as “uppercase” and “lowercase” originated from the printing press. Typesetters would store all the individual letters in two cases. The capital letters were stored in the Upper Case and the rest were stored in the lower.
Y7JlB TIL country star Merle Haggard got his start in music after seeing Johnny Cash play while he was an inmate at San Quentin Prison at age 21
ADpv7 TIL that in the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus and the Crucifixion, Jesus is shown as a donkey. The image is a Roman graffito scratched on a wall in Rome somewhere in the 2nd century, apparently to mock Christians.
E104p TIL that a mile was changed from 5,000 to 5,280 feet because when the Bible was translated into English, no one did the math.
oROQ8 TIL birds can eat hot pepper without a problem because they don’t feel its hotness