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TIL about "mundane science fiction," a sci-fi literary movement driven by creating plausible extensions of existing science and technology; situating stories on Earth or within the Solar System, thereby lacking the use of interstellar or intergalactic travel; and not considering contact with aliens.

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5V0D TIL Dr. Seuss pronounced his pen name as rhyming with “voice”
9YjYX TIL of a theory that suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians in the first millennium BC
16MP TIL Americans can find out if the government is holding money for them from wills, trusts, banks, lawsuits, taxes and so on. I learned this as my buddy found out his grandmother left him $65,000.00 in her will. He’s having a good night.
M7KNK TIL that the Japanese slaughtered 100,000 Filipinos before they were pushed out of Manila in WW2. Mass live burnings and mass "comfort" attacks were the standard.
a5bA TIL British spies used semen as invisible ink during WWI and this method was invented by Sir Mansfield Cumming