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TIL in the 1970s, Japanese teenage girls developed such excessively cute handwriting that it was banned in schools due to illegibility.

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W7V4d TIL that between March 1910 and September 1911 a pressurized oil well explosion formed the Lakeview Gusher, releasing 9 million barrels of crude oil and flooding the area in rivers of oil. It's a "miracle" that the oil field had not caught fire and the event remains the worst oil spill in history.
b9jNE TIL there is a traditional Sardinian cheese banned in the EU that is filled with live maggots and secretes liquid (not safe for life)
0wLEN TIL that famed 19th century author Leo Tolstoy was penpals with Mahatma Gandhi and inspired his practice of nonviolent protest
rNAgo TIL in 1864, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay teamed up to, in effect, almost wipe Paraguay off the face of the planet. In total, 60–70% of the population of Paraguay died as a result of the war, leaving a woman/man ratio of 4 to 1 (as high as 20 to 1, in the most devastated areas).
BroZK TIL That the Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 project is full of historical inaccuracies that were pointed out by nationally recognized historians and ignored