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TIL 90% of Native Americans have no issue with the name “Washington Redskins”

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x6ARb TIL that there are 15 different plug styles.
Ox47 TIL There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her elementary school in Brooklyn
p8Lr4 TIL Numbered musical notation is popular in China, making conventions to encode and decode music more accessible than in the West, as more Chinese can sight read it than standard notation. Indexing with numbers makes it possible to search music by melody, but it has never become popular in the West
Rp5l TIL Israel admitted to administering immigrating Ethiopian women with a “long-acting” contraception without their knowledge; with the ironic goal of keeping Israel “pure”.
N7DxQ TIL there is a 1000 years old Japanese poem about the fleetingness of existence, which uses each letter of the Japanese alphabet exactly once. The poem was used as a way to order the alphabet until the Meiji restauration