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TIL the English language has a mark resembling an umlaut (called a diaeresis) used to show 2 vowels are also 2 syllables, as in coöperation. The mark is mostly defunct, but still used by The New Yorker magazine.

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awgJ0 TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots' translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.
1aprd TIL that Soviet forces literally buried their tanks in the ground to turn them into stationary turrets at the Battle of Kursk. And it worked.
xLN7 TIL Freddie Mercury bequeathed the vast majority of his fortune to his ex-girlfriend, and also entrusted her to ensure that the burial place of his ashes would remain secret.
y4Dp TIL Emerson Moser worked for 37 years for Crayola, making 1.4 billion crayons. After retiring, he revealed he was colorblind.
XWE6 TIL Willie Nelson sold his first song for only $50 and the cost of a restaurant bill that he couldn’t afford. “Family Bible” went on to reach #7 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart, but Nelson had no regrets about the sale, saying, “I felt if I could write one hit song, I could write another.”