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TIL Skepticism is the longest typed word on the typewriter (or any keyboard )in which you alternate hands every letter and the word typewriter, is one of the longest words able to be typed using one row of letters.

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4XOba TIL that Eritrea, a small African dictatorship of a country, is one of the worst places in the world for human rights. Every 18 year old Eritrean is conscripted to the army in which the conditions are said to be practically slavery.
WkOVd TIL out of about 550 people who have been to space, only three have actually died there. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 cabin depressurized at an altitude of 104 miles. When unsuspecting recovery crews opened the capsule, they found the cosmonauts dead inside, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.
lo1r TIL that Toshiba has made a micro nuclear reactor designed for smaller-scale applications like powering a single neighborhood
p8kMe TIL of Doug Tompkins, a high school drop-out and the co-founder of North Face and Esprit. He eventually sold both businesses and started to do conservation work in South America with his second wife, former CEO of Patagonia. A very experienced outdoorsman, he died from hypothermia while kayaking.
8e1Ob TIL Isaac Newton created the modern color wheel