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TIL that double spacing after a period is now considered a punctuation error.

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mPky TIL of an experiment where monkeys were introduced to the concept of money. Soon after some of them turned into thieves, prostitutes and even a “bank robber”.
78Akp TIL In 1964 a criticality accident in Rhode Island at a nuclear facility resulted in the largest single full body dose of radiation in history, the equivalent of 700,000 X-rays at once | The victim died 49 hours later
6EkXX TIL that the parents of rock musician Geddy Lee (of the band Rush) were Holocaust survivors who had been imprisoned at both Auschwitz and Dachau and had met one another in the Starachowice camp.
PDXV TIL that Disneyland has Hell’s Angel-like “gangs,” such as “The Main Street Elite” and the “Neverlanders.”
yQ4N8 TIL Kimiko Nishimoto, 92-old Japanese woman renowned for her humorous self-photos, only started photography in her early 70s.