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TIL the voice in your head while reading is subvocalization

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OX5R TIL that one of the first things free blacks could grow, eat, and sell were watermelons. It became a symbol of freedom that was corrupted into a negative stereotype by southern whites and still persists today.
b98M0 TIL that the most expensive private school in the world is ‘Institut Le Rosey’, in which you’d have to pay $113,178 per year just to attend!
XElrE TIL that in 1969, Sir David Attenborough was the BBC's Director of Programmes and was responsible for commissioning Monty Python's Flying Circus.
EdRW TIL: A Woman thought some cheese was cocaine so she hired a hit-man to kill a house full of people to steal it.
vloB TIL that the Millenium Bug resulted in 154 incorrect Down Syndrome results being sent to pregnant mothers; two abortions took place.