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TIL Spy Kids is on the National Film Registry, being added in 2024

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5V18R TIL President Woodrow Wilson was thought to have been dyslexic and didn't learn to read or write until after he was 10 years old.
vPwrj TIL that the Great Fire of London (1666) was made worse due to the indecisiveness of the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Bloodworth. He reportedly said, "A woman might piss it out" and shortly later, was close to fainting. It took King Charles II to handle the situation and damages totaled £2 billion
rR4Dw TIL that Carlo Kaiser had a decade long career as a professional soccer player, during which time he managed to hide the fact that he was a bad player through various techniques, such as faking injuries, changing teams, and befriending journalists who would write fake articles about him.
Mee8B TIL prior to the advent of commercial aviation, "air-line" referred to railroads that used relatively straight and direct routes.
p861b TIL in Korean, the word 동무 (同務/tongmu) was originally used to mean "friend" across the whole of Korea. After the North began to use it as a translation of the comrade, the word has fallen out of use in the south. instead, the south started to use 친구 (親舊/chingu) to mean friend