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TIL Sydney, Australia has an annual duck fashion show :)

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5YQek TIL American Noah Webster is primarily responsible for the differences between American and British spelling, but many of his changes never stuck, such as medicine=medicin, ache=ake, soup=soop, tongue=tung, women=wimmen, and weather=wether
lgL5 TIL that Microsoft was accused of an anti-semitic conspiracy because in the Wingdings font, typing in “NYC” results in “☠✡?”.
x6101 TIL Between 43 and 42 BC, a commemorative coin was produced to celebrate the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15th, 44 BC. Marcus Brutus is minted on the heads side, while the tails side has a pileus cap between two daggers.
GY1Y1 TIL American captives in the Vietnam war would authenticate a new prisoner’s American identity by tapping the first five notes of “Shave and a Haircut”, against a cell wall, and waiting for the appropriate response
9YDnm TIL an Israeli company tried seeding the Moon with waterbears.