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TIL Pillbugs (Roly Polies) are crustaceans, not insects.
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TIL According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of U.S. adults 16-74 years old - about 130 million people - lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
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TIL The Black Death killed half of the current Norweigan population in 1349. Because of this, Norway couldn’t sustain a kingdom and they were soon in a union with Sweden and Denmark.
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TIL that throughout the Victorian era, moustache cups were quite common. The cup had a ledge, called a moustache guard, had a half moon-shaped opening to allow the passage of liquids and served as a guard to keep moustaches dry.
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TIL the construction of the Equitable Building in Manhattan and the controversy surrounding it led New York City to adopt the 1916 Zoning Resolution, the first of its kind in the U.S.
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TIL Nintendo collaborated with Sony to make “Nintendo PlayStation”, a CD based SNES, in 1988. Nintendo dropped Sony, chose Philips, and Sony developed Play Station independently.