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TIL WWW is the longest possible three letter acronym to pronounce, ordinarily using three times as many syllables than the words it is abbreviating

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7J5P TIL that the word “Ewok” was never mentioned in Star Wars.
R7XR1 TIL about Tim Cordes, a physician with blindness. He was the third blind medical student in the U.S in 1998. Despite his impressive resume, the University of Wisconsin's medical school was the only one to accept him. They accommodated him and his service dog,Vance, went with him to clinicals.
wLA6J TIL, a 3,000 year old mummy was found that had a wooden prosthetic big toe.
QJlGp TIL when Robert E Lee and the Confederate army surrendered, Union soldiers saluted them and gave them rations (the confederate soldiers were starving). Normally victorious armies would taunt defeated ones, but Ulysses S Grant respected the Confederates too much and ordered that they be treated well.
E1Kx TIL In 1941-42, during ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the Nazi’s captured roughly 5.5 million Soviet prisoners of war resulting in one of the most concentrated mass killings in human history