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TIL that 8 percent of teachers walk away from the profession every year

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ObE7 TIL Lord Byron’s nickname for his rival, William Wordsworth, was “William Turdsworth”
84kG TIL that the majority of war hammers looked more like regular claw hammers on poles than the huge mallets we imagine
oBmRR TIL In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'" It contained a total of zero words.
eJYE TIL that after hurricane Katrina, FEMA distributed thousands of trailers with toxic levels of formaldehyde, were sued, and then sold them after a court order expired
NXQwe TIL four barracks buildings on US Naval Base Coronado form the shape of a swastika. The shape was supposed to be remedied in the mid-2000s, but it remains in place today.