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TIL It took more than 70 years to complete the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Originally, the Philological Society predicted that the dictionary would take about 10 years to complete. Twenty-seven years later, the editors had successfully reached the word ant.

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5lXn TIL typefaces (fonts) are not protected by copyright in the United States as they are considered to be “utilitarian objects whose utility outweighs any merit that may exist in protecting their creative elements.”
VMM1D TIL that researchers who have studied Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, believe there is some correlation to the uncanny valley effect, in which a figure is lifelike enough to be disturbing, but not realistic enough to be pleasant.
N7rgE TIL Amsterdam employs alcoholics as street cleaners and pays them with beer. In addition to the five cans, they also get €10 ($11.36) and half a pack of loose tobacco for each 6.5 hour shift.
ONE7 TIL the number of devices connected to the internet now exceeds the number of people in the world
v14dR TIL that a German nurse was sentenced to life in prison without eligibility for parole after he murdered more than 85 patients because he wanted to show off his resuscitation skills and be the hero who saves them on the hospital bed