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TIL that the last letter added to the alphabet was J

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OoLLY TIL 29th February 1900 is an accepted date in Microsoft Excel, despite not existing. It is a deliberate feature to maintain compatibility with a bug created 37 years ago
b9Gy4 TIL "Trepanning" surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled into the human skull
DQVYe TIL that "administrator" is actually a gendered term and that the female version is "administratrix"
lg6V TIL Smoke Detectors mostly chirp in the dead of night because the chemical reaction in batteries slows down when the air get’s colder thus tripping the detectors low battery detector.
8e6d8 TIL about Bogdan Zerajic, whose failed assassination attempt inspired Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Franz Ferdinand two years later, sending the world into World War 1.