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TIL: There is an Executive Order for “plain language” in the US government to make official documents accessible to the public.

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BrvvW TIL the Pentagon was built in less than a year and a half and was only supposed to be temporary
vP4jr TIL Japans fastest maglev will hit 600 KPH but is currently on hold due to water concerns on a small section of the route
rRxvW TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter.
daEE TIL That the NRA has a lightsaber in their “Treasure Collection” of Guns
l6G7 TIL that plastics don’t dry in the dishwasher because they don’t have enough mass to get hot enough to evaporate water during the drying cycle, like glass and ceramics do.