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TIL no one really knows what the H in "Jesus H. Christ" stands for

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e0QpL TIL that Shantaram Siddi became the first Indian legislator of African descent, when he was appointed as MLC by the ruling BJP in the state of Karnataka on 22 Jul 2020. India has about 50K Siddi people who descended from Bantu people of east Africa, and a third of them call Karnataka their home.
69b8X TIL that the entire Southwest fleet is Boeing 737’s.
JYXJQ TIL iPhones have a built in PDF maker. Simply select “Print” on anything (pictures, documents, web page, etc), then use your fingers to zoom in on the print preview, and what you see is actually a pdf that you can save, share, etc.
ZpMyQ TIL that the quasar 3C 273 is so incredibly bright that if it were 36 lightyears away it would appear brighter than the sun in our sky, and is 4 trillion times brighter than our star.
pYGlO TIL children exposed to unstable housing had more frequent adverse childhood experiences and, later in life, higher risks of depression, suicide attempts, alcoholism, and smoking