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

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OALY TIL Georgia Tech accepts Bitcoin as a form of payment on campus, and at their stadium.
4XAYw TIL Ice Cream sundaes were invented when it became illegal to sell ice-cream sodas on a Sunday in the American town of Evanston during the late 19th century. To get around the problem some traders replaced the soda with syrup and called the dessert an "Ice Cream Sunday."
p8RVA TIL Las Vegas casinos used MIT yearbooks to identify potential card counters.
LejP TIL that Ernest Hemingway was a fantastic cook famed for his pan-fried hamburgers and bacon wrapped trout.
P17xL TIL there's a jetty in Australia that's so long that one end is 2m higher than the other due to the curvature of the Earth