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TIL that what we mean by fonts is actually called a typeface. Fonts are the different weights, styles and other (thing bold and italic) representations of a particular typeface.

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N7JN TIL Ukraine wants to ban SpongeBob and other television shows because he’s “gay”
10Ed TIL Matthew McConaughey was arrested in 1999 after police allegedly found him dancing naked and playing bongo drums in his house. He paid a $50 fine for disturbing his neighbors with the show.
YX5G TIL the coldest temperature in the Universe exists on Earth. Magnets of the Large Hadron Collider are cooled to 1.9 Kelvin, colder than deep space.
yQmX8 TIL after a Polish Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug was taken prisoner during WW2, his former Imperial German Navy friends came to visit him. Unrug refused to speak German with them, saying that he had forgotten that language in September 1939 the day Germany invaded Poland
LkOOP TIL The day after John Lennon was murdered David Bowie was appearing in the play The Elephant Man. Chapman had a front-row ticket to play that night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front for that show too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row.