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TIL The last letter to be added to our alphabet was “J.”

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PYoWG TIL Tu Youyou, a Chinese Nobel Laureate, discovered a treatment for malaria by reading an ancient Daoist text from 340 CE describing an herbal remedy for "intermittent fevers"
WbZY TIL that the US government gave VW $51 million in subsidies for “clean Diesels”.
j6rNR TIL elephants can hear clouds
LkAym TIL There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth
WRX8 TIL that, through most of western history, larger-than-average penises were considered embarrassing and barbaric; the modern idea that ‘bigger is better’, beginning in the late 19th century, was a side effect of pornography