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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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xMxD TIL fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That’s why it gets so quiet when it snows.
KOybQ TIL The Qing Dynasty of China killed an estimated 80% of the Buddhist Mongols living in what is now Xinjiang, and then resettled the area with Muslim Uyghurs in 1757.
nW4aY TIL in 2018 NHK in Japan produced a 15-minute daily TV drama, Manpuku, that dramatized the lives of Momofuku Andō and his wife Masako, the inventors of instant ramen.
OGVPR TIL Until the year 2000, the State of Virginia celebrated Lee-Jackson-King day, lumping two Confederate leaders in with Dr. Martin Luther King.
aN9 TIL That 3 divers nicknamed the “Chernobyl Suicide Squad” prevented a second explosion that would have rendered Europe “uninhabitable” by volunteering to dive into highly-radiated water beneath the reactor.