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TIL more words break the i before e except after c rule than follow it

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5Vj9 TIL there is nearly a 50:50 split (pun intended) between people that sit to wipe and those that stand to wipe their butts and that most people don’t even know the other way exists!
OoDw1 TIL about Lt Commander Joseph Vaghi. He was an US Beachmaster during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, acting as a "traffic cop" orienting the landing troops. Giving orders under heavy machine gun fire, he ran into an old classmate, who asked him, "Hi Joe, what the hell are you doing here?"
j6p4M TIL about Mortimer Taube, a pioneer in information and library sciences, whose "Computers and Common Sense: The Myth of Thinking Machines" (1961) and its analysis/critique of "thinking machines" is still relevant to today's discussions involving artificial intelligence
a8E5o TIL that elephants were once used as executioners in South and Southeast Asia. In India, rogue elephants were trained to carry out executions by crushing, dismembering, or torturing victims with their immense power.
ne7Jb TIL 100 year old citizens of Barbados have their portrait printed on postal stamps to celebrate their anniversaries