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lo1O1 TIL: George Orwell, the author of 1984, was the one who coined the term "cold war" to describe post-WWII relationship between the US and the USSR. He used it to describe the new landscape that the atom bomb created.
lmvA TIL that a large majority of ginger cats are male.
QNyNX TIL that Scots is not just a dialect of English, but a proper language with its own spelling. For example, “efter aw I’v duin for ye” is Scots for “after all I’ve done for you.”
1a5MW TIL more than half of all new PhDs in the US are fake
VBrWm TIL that Zohran Mamdani's Mother, Golden Lion winner & Oscar, BAFTA, & Golden Globe nominee, Mira Nair, was offered to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), and was convinced by Zohran to turn it down in favor of making The Namesake (2006) and to cast Kal Penn in it.