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TIL that deaf children have great difficulty learning to read; and high school seniors are likely to read at the level of a nine-year old.

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GYQ1Q TIL Norman Borlaug is an agronomist responsible for saving over a billion lives from starvation due to his work in creating drought and disease resistant crops.
neQlP TIL that the Montezuma Castle National Monument in Arizona was named by white settlers who assumed the Aztecs were responsible for all archeological sites but it turns out the monument has nothing to do with Montezuma or the Aztecs and yet no one bothered to rename it.
6988Q TIL, The common “I Voted” sticker was created and patented by a woman named Janet Boudreau
PYwO TIL Some Russian yachts offer “pirate hunting” cruises off Somali coast where yacht owners provide AK-47’s for a chance to kill pirates.
QKpL TIL after the popularity of Steve Earle’s song “Copperhead Road,” the actual Copperhead Road in Mountain City, TN was changed to “Copperhead Hollow Rd” after people kept stealing road signs bearing the song’s title.