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TIL that French uses « » as quotation marks instead of " "

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1aKZ4 TIL that a photosensitive drum, charged by a corona wire, inside a photocopier machine, carries an electrical shadow of the letters to be copied towards the toner, where the toner particles stick to the shadow and then transfered to white blank paper.
vOL7 TIL that on this day, ARPANET shifted its networking protocols from NCP to TCP/IP, marking the beginnings of the internet as we know it.
5aD8 TIL that Vatican’s chief astronomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
oRP0r Til that Sir Sean Connery last movie was a 2012 animated film called “Sir Billi”. About a retired veterinarian (Sir Sean Connery) living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he’s a dog, an Admiral who’s afraid of the water, and a beaver who was raised by rabbits.
womm1 TIL Infectious Grooves' song Do What I Tell Ya! criticized Rage Against The Machine's relationship with multinational conglomerate corporation, Sony.