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TIL that literally has become an example of an autoantonym – a word with two opposite meanings

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6ZAl TIL in 1908 the Russian Olympic team arrived at the Olympics in London 12 days late because it was still using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar
Q5E9 TIL the term ‘whipping boy’ comes from english nobility, where someone was assigned to take corporal punishment instead of royalty
b9y7p TIL Susan B. Anthony, although known for work for women's suffrage, was also an abolitionist: she collected anti-slavery petitions when she was 17, and in her 30's she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
4Xx1X TIL the first Soviet soldiers to raise the USSR flag over the Reichstag were a small team headed by Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev, who sneaked into the occupied building and raised it under cover of darkness. It was shot down by German snipers the next day
vyv8 TIL that the US only lets in 65,000 immigrants eligible for the H-1B visa, a visa for educated immigrants, a year, and that they can only stay for three years, extendable to six years.