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TIL Modern capital letters are derived from a style called uncial. This style was developed by monks when writing manuscripts because of its ease to write in.

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0w8JL TIL about Michel Lotito. Throughout his life he ate 18 bicycles, seven TV sets, two beds, 15 supermarket trolleys, a computer, a coffin (handles and all), a pair of skis, six chandeliers and an airplane (Cessna 150) piece by piece.
7reKb Dubai is a global business hub and luxury tourist destination that boasts the world’s tallest building and a police force that drive supercars. So how did it get so rich?
BrGGy TIL Operation Cobra was the codename for an offensive launched by the United States First Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II.
xXk0 TIL Sweden has a secret blood bank that takes blood from all newborns since 1975 , and was used to solve the murder of Anna Lindh (politican) Link in swedish.
j5mX TIL that mathematically there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the Observable Universe.