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

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BVW TIL Thomas Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark to keep their eye out for a 10 foot tall Lion while they explored the West.
dDEgK TIL that armadillos can carry leprosy that can spread to humans
BrBpK TIL mass deaths due to the governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect is called Democide
dlDj TIL the then unknown writer Franz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his works after his death. Brod didn’t, published them and Kafka became world famous posthumously.
neBor TIL that the Brontosaurus was thought to be a mistake, the creature had never existed. The animal was actually an Apatosaurus, a previously discovered dinosaur, and it should have had that name. Now it's been discovered that they actually are two separate animals, and the Brontosaurus exists again.