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TIL that the longest word in the English dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, and it is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.

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kOl9e TIL that one of the main characters (Woody) from Pixar’s Toy Story has a last name: Woody Pride
nW9Oo TIL of Chief Tuskaloosa, the giant Paramount Chieftain of modern day Alabama, who was killed in combat with the forces of Spanish Conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1540. The modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named in his honor.
ZmyQ TIL that the term ‘sour grapes’ originates from the Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes” (620–564 BCE), in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour. The moral that accompanies the story is that “any fool can despise what he can not get”.
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