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TIL that Dr Seuss invented the word “Nerd”

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vPDPR Today i learned that the yeast we put in our food is ALIVE
LQMO9 TIL the 'Negro Motorist Green Book' was based on an earlier 'Jewish Vacation Guide' book which outlined places that Jews were not unwelcome to stay in America in 1917.
4Xnxw TIL that 90% of the plastic waste in the ocean comes from Asia & Africa
5Yjmr TIL about "three-quarter siblings": siblings who are genetically half way between full siblings and half siblings. This happens if they share the same father but different mothers who are sisters, or the same mother but different fathers who are brothers.
9YroB TIL the holomovement brings together the holistic principle of "undivided wholeness" with the idea that everything is in a state of process or becoming. In this interpretation of physics wholeness is not considered static, but as a dynamic interconnected process.