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TIL "OK" is an acronym for "Oll Korrect," a purposeful misspelling of "All Correct," as a joke in 1800s newspapers.

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W79o8 TIL - there's such a thing as pink snow
m14ax TIL: Inmates are not allowed to wear wigs or artificial hairpieces.
J1Mv4 TIL that the first bread slicing machine was Invented by Otto Fredrick from Iowa in 1928.
j6VRR TIL along with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, Romania was secretly also a member of the Triple Alliance before WW1 because of the King of Romania's ties to Germany. Later, like with Italy, it decided to stay neutral at first and then joined the Allied Powers.
OG814 TIL former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's voice was used to record the longest audio greeting to extraterrestrials on the Voyager Spacecraft; approx. 7 years after the spacecraft was launched, Waldheim was publicly accused of participating in war crimes by famed "Nazi Hunter" Eli Rosenbaum