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TIL that a type face that leans to the right is Italic. If it leans to the left, it's Iranic.

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e0pO5 Sea creatures in Mariana Trench (the deepest place on Earth) have been found with man-made fibres in their stomachs for the first time, showing that no part of the world’s seas are now untouched by human rubbish.
E1yP0 TIL Beekeeping has been going for thousands of years and it was wide spread in the Levant regions by 1500 BCE. The practice was so important for the local economies that in the Hittite laws the penalties for stealing a swam of bees or empty hive was about the same as the fine for stealing a sheep.
oZkr TIL that in 2006, a ship lost 58 Containers full of shoes on the North Sea. About half a million shoes flushed a shore on the Dutch island of Terschelling, covering the beaches with shoes.
W7eb8 TIL that of the roughly 615,000 men that Napoleon invaded Russia with, only about 18% managed to return home.
7VNZ TIL that Spielberg returned to college in 2002 to finish his film degree. When the assignment was to submit a sample of filmmaking proficiency, he submitted Schindler’s List