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TIL about Transformative Power of Handwriting with Apple Pencil

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ANXww TIL the city of Jakarta has a "No-car day" every Sunday, inviting pedestrians to use the streets for recreational activity instead
AN7Za TIL Rudy Eugene, the attacker in the 2012 “zombie/bath salts” case, didn’t actually have bath salts in his system and it is still unclear why he attacked the victim that day.
pYaaA TIL Cormac McCarthy, One of America's greatest writers, wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.
7rlE7 TIL, Vesta Stoudt, who had the idea for duct tape, couldnt get her bosses at a military ordnance plant to take her seriously. So she sent a letter to FDR who recommended it to the War Production Board where it was approved for use on ammo boxes.
Av9d TIL even though he was a teenager during the Great Depression, John F. Kennedy confessed he really didn’t know about it until he read about it at Harvard.