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TIL there is a font specifically designed to help those with dyslexia, which “weighs down” letters to prevent them from moving around.

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P1WLG TIL several languages, including widely-spoken ones like Farsi, Tagalog and even spoken Mandarin, do not have gendered pronouns (e.g. he or she)
lolY1 TIL Bend It Like Beckham was the first ever Western made film to air on television in North Korea.
e0M1k TIL that in California, teachers can get fired for identifying as communist
6yJm TIL In 2005, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the application of Eminent Domain to kick homeowners off of their property so private developers could build hotels, health clubs, and condos in New London, Connecticut. Years later, the abandoned property remains an overgrown, barren field.
QJ8Kp TIL whenever Abraham Lincoln felt the urge to tell someone off, he would compose a “hot letter.” He’d pile all of his anger into a note, “put it aside until his emotions cooled down,” Doris Kearns Goodwin once explained on NPR, “and then write: ‘Never sent. Never signed.’