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TIL: Verizon will hang up on you (and refuse to communicate) if you inform them that you are recording the phone call. Even though they require you to let them record you.

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78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.
a41L TIL Finns are Mongols from central Asia
4e0R TIL that Su Hui, a fourth century Chinese poet, wrote a poem in the form of a twenty-nine by twenty-nine character grid. Each line can be read forward or backwards, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This arrangement allows for 2,848 different readings.
XyLD TIL that curly hair is curly because the hair follicle it grows from is oval and straight hair is straight because the hair follicle it grows from is round. Straight hair is like a straw (except tinier) and curly hair is like a slightly squeezed tip of a straw.
oRve8 TIL In 1997 a number of people from Kentucky developed CJD (aka human mad cow disease). It was discovered that all had consumed squirrel brains.