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TIL that sign language users have “accents”, and can often tell the region another user comes from through them, just like spoken language.

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Zpo TIL that the guitar playing in the show Metalocalypse is animated %100 accurately. What the animated characters on the show are fretting actually corresponds to the notes they’re playing.
oBb9W TIL the woman who invented Mother's Day spent the last years of her life trying to abolish it
pKMA TIL that Seattle changed Columbus day to indigenous peoples day in 2014 to acknowledge that native Americans were living in the Americas long before Columbus “discovered” it.
XpNE TIL Mary Anderson, inventor of the modern windscreen wiper was told “we do not consider it to be of such commercial value as would warrant our undertaking its sale”, when she tried to sell her patent. Many company’s went on to implement her device after her patent was expired.
PYEKG TIL that Belgium has a Time Credit System that entitles employees to take a one year secured absence to prevent burn-out and provide an opportunity to pursue other things in life.