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TIL that the ACLU has filed a lawsuit defending the KKK’s right to participate in Georgia’s Adopt-A-Highway program

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WkBDL TIL that the American accent is actually closer to the English accent of Shakespeare than current British English
QNkgX TIL Olympia, Washington's Chinatown was once known as "Locke Town" as Chinese residents were predominantly from the Lok family villages in southern China. WA governor Gary Locke's grandfather settled in Olympia as a teenager from China in 1890. There is no more Chinatown in Olympia
Z8D5D TIL, CAPTCHA is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
OG9oR TIL Galileo tracked sunspot movements and discovered that the Sun rotates. It is now known that sunspots close to the equator rotate once each 25 days and sunspots near the poles rotate each 38 days
7rjY7 TIL about Francesco Corbetta. He brought the guitar to the rest of the world and was one of the first people to write complex plucked music for the instrument. If it wasn’t for him, the guitar would be a folk instrument restricted to Spain and Italy.