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TIL a female swan is called a Pen
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TIL about the RED T, a nonprofit organization advocating for the protection of translators and interpreters in high-risk settings.
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TIL that there is a book from the 15th century found in Italy that is written in a unknown language, with drawings that show unidentified things, and that nobody has ever been able to understand it.
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TIL after a student failed the math portion of Minnesota’s Basic Standards Tests her father demanded to see the exam, threatening to sue for it. A series of scoring errors were found meaning math scores for 45,739 Minnesota students were wrong and 7,935 students who were told they failed had passed.
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TIL that Hugh Jackman went without water for 36 hours before filming the opening scene of “Les Mis”.
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TIL that one of Britain’s top post-war writers, Benjamin Zephaniah, declined an OBE appointment (Order of the British Empire), stating the honors were "a legacy of colonialism." Besides being a renowned poet, Zephaniah also appeared in “Peaky Blinders” for about 9 years as Jeremiah Jesus