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TIL that in 2024 the Swedish government did a review to cut down on agencies and ended up discovering 25 they didn’t even realize existed.

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lorJN TIL about Minnie Lou Crosthwaite, the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system. She was also an important early figure in the foundation of the YWCA, and raised funds for needy soldiers during WWI.
6EL7 TIL: “Grave of the Fireflies” and “My Neighbour Totoro” were originally released as a double billing.
BgZxk TIL sportswriter Henry Chadwick (b. 1824), the "Father of Baseball" is credited with creating "K" as the designation for a strikeout. K is the middle sound of the word "strikeout", and other potential letters (S, T, R, I) already had meanings in baseball.
dDWR7 TIL that still being a desert, the Sechura region of Peru has been effected at times by flooding and storms from the ocean. It is a coastal desert.
xVGe0 TIL India banned jury trials after a Naval officer murdered his wife’s lover and a combination of sympathy for the wronged husband and a concerted media campaign to paint him as such resulted in the jury acquitting him.