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TIL: That OpenDyslexic is a font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. Letters have heavy weighted bottoms to indicate direction and other unique features that prevent flipping, swapping, and rotating of letters!

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ZlwQ TIL That there’s a subculture of neo-nazi’s hipsters. They’re called “Nipsters”.
4XWwR TIL the Battle of Agincourt, when King Henry V led his army into France and came up head to head with a larger army. However, the commander of the French army really screwed up his advantage. He attacked the English army in a very muddy field, so the heavily-armored French became sitting ducks.
l7NrG TIL Natalia Tena, who played Osha in Game of Thrones, was denied a pubic wig for her nude scenes despite arguing that her character, a Wildling, wouldn’t shave or trim. She wasn't even allowed to grow out her own hair, as the directors insisted on it being short.
DmEV TIL that 76% of all known serial killers in the 20th century were from the United States.
v1LDj TIL that the US is in eternal battle with a flesh eating fly called the Screw Worm. Basically a maggot that burrow into live flesh, head first. There's a worm screw border guard at Panama, having mostly irradicating them in North America. Last US case in 2016. Yes, they will lay their eggs in you.