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TIL that it’s called an Atomic Typo if your typo creates a different correctly-spelled word, immune to spellcheck.

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Lk6gQ TIL Some multilingual dyslexics are only dyslexic in one of their languages, and not the other(s).
wLKBW TIL that abolitionist martyrJohn Brown was “cheerful” awaiting execution. Brown, a devout Christian recognizing the power of martyrdom, was “fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.” Emerson: “If he shall suffer. the gallows will be glorious like the cross.”
wo5M6 TIL Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) received an invitation in 2012 to the 50th reunion for Harvard’s 1962 undergraduate class while at ADX Florence prison. In his RSVP, he listed his occupation as ‘prisoner’.
6ELYW TIL 15-yr-old Temar Boggs & a friend saved a 5-yr-old girl from a kidnapper; the teens saw the girl in the kidnapper's car & chased the car on their bicycles. After a 15 min. chase, the driver apparently knew he was being followed, stopped & let the girl out.
9wJo6 TIL that there exist special kinds of contact lenses designed specifically for dogs