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TIL, the longest word in the world is 189,819 letters long and describes the protein called Titin.

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rgk1 TIL the Vietnam War is known in Vietnam as the American War
AD9ma TIL about the proposed second bill of rights by Roosevelt that would include: medical care, a decent home, a good education, a job etc.
NXLoM TIL Venus Fly Traps are exclusively found in the wild in the Carolina states, specifically around the Carolina Bays, and due to poaching for export/resale and inability to clear underbrush that eventually smothers the low-dwelling carnivorous plants, they are now endangered.
l7aE5 TIL about the Deseret Alphabet, a 19th-century phonetic writing system created by Mormon leaders to simplify English. Parts of the Book of Mormon were translated into it, but the alphabet faded into obscurity.
yVN9l TIL that the Ancient greek believed that a good-looking man is an indicator of his inner goodness while a woman's outer beauty is a reflection of her inner evilness. "She was evil because she was beautiful, and beautiful because she was evil"