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TIL the Italian alphabet only has 21 letters. If the letters j, k, w, x or y appear in a word, it is because the word has been borrowed from a different language.

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MAQV TIL In 2002 Boston orthopedist David Arndt, while performing complicated spinal surgery, walked out on his patient – who was lying on the operating table, anesthetized and sliced open – so he could go cash his paycheck before the bank closed.
nWGbY TIL about Monjeríos, where Indigenous girls in colonial California were forced to live in terrible conditions, abused, and even had their husbands chosen by priests.
W7y48 TIL that blackcurrants were once grown in the U.S. until their growth was restricted in 1911. The restriction was to protect pine trees from blister rust fungus, which use the plant as a host.
6E7pQ TIL that clapperboards are used to synchronize audio and video captured in separate devices
YypP TIL Every second of every day, the sun converts 700 million tons of hydrogen into 695 million tons of helium. The other 5 million tons becomes energy. Every second.