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TIL that Andrew Carnegie funded an organization to simplify spelling in the English language. Teddy Roosevelt began using the reformed spelling in his official communications and tried to get the federal government to follow suit, but Congress unanimously voted to stop him.

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8njb TIL Otzi the Iceman lived 5,000 years ago. His two last meals were deer and chamois, he was likely a copper smelter, was 45 when he was killed by an arrow wound, had 61 tattoos, and probably grew up in the still existent village of Feldthurns.
4XgBX TIL Wolf packs do not have an "alpha wolf", nor do younger wolves "overthrow" the leader.
bXjp TIL that, adjusting for inflation, the arcade game Pac-Man took in $7.6 billion, which is greater than the combined inflation adjusted revenue of the movies Gone with the Wind and Avatar.
W1yd TIL that Rep. Tom Moore Jr. once submitted legislation to the Texas legislature in favor of honoring notorious murderer Albert DeSalvo “for his work in ‘population control’” as an April Fool’s Day joke. Without paying any attention to it, it was unanimously passed.
ne88Y TIL Oxford researches attributed 10,000 suicides to "the Great Recession" from 2008 to 2010 in North America and Europe