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TIL modern Microsoft Office documents (.docx, .xlsx) are actually just ZIP files containing multiple XML files. You can change the extension of office documents to .zip and see this yourself.

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WbBd TIL that a man once attempted to assassinate Andrew Jackson with two pistols, however both pistols misfired and Jackson proceeded to beat the man to near death with his cane.
akbN TIL that Venezuela is one of the most violent places on earth with a person being murdered every 21 minutes.
X09Nr TIL about the Sorbian people of Lusatia in eastern Germany. They speak a Slavic language, keep bilingual signs, and still celebrate traditions like Easter horseback parades and intricate egg painting. Though small in number, they’ve preserved their culture for over 1,000 years.
awRXo TIL that the Fairy Tales of Ludwig Bechstein were once more popular then the Brothers Grimm. In those tales women were self reliant instead of damsels in distress, and step-mothers were not treated as "wicked" since many German mothers died in childbirth and the role of stepmother was so important.
YAgr TIL that Leibniz didn’t ‘steal’ calculus from Newton, he discovered it independently and invented a better format for it that we still use today