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TIL: 54% of Americans read under a 6th grade level
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TIL That there was a violent street gang in 1980’s NYC called The Decepticons, and their leader called himself Megatron.
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TIL that Lego has launched a “Braille Brick” concept. It’s designed help children who are blind and partially sighted learn braille. The Braille Kit is expected to launch in 2020, with 250 bricks covering the alphabet, numbers 0-9, and select maths symbols.
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TIL Silicon & Synapse, Inc was founded on February 8, 1991, but changed their name to Chaos Studios, Inc. in 1993 because of confusion with breast implants. The company changed the name again in 1994 because of Chaos Technologies and they became Blizzard Entertainment because it passed a name check.
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TIL It has been 42 years since an Italian born Catholic Pope has been in office. The last time it was longer was during the 1400's when "The Western Schism" had competing Popes living in France and Italy.
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TIL that Christopher Nolan was so secretive about Interstellar that he initially asked Hans Zimmer to compose the score with just a one-page story about a father who leaves his child to do an important job instead of giving him the script. It contained two lines of dialogue: "I'll come back & when?"