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TIL that the US Government made and released a freely available font called Public Sans, because "sometimes you need one that’s simple, neutral, and isn’t Helvetica."

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p4VQ TIL that when Marilyn Monroe returned from entertaining the troops in Korea, she told then-husband Joe Dimaggio “Joe! Joe! You’ve never heard such cheers” To which he responded “Yes I have”
eQGk TIL a man was so pissed that his girlfriend dumped him that he bought a $600 car, registered it in her name, and parked it at O'Hare airport and left it there until it had more than $10,000 in parking fees.
j6Xen TIL about Prosthaphaeresis, a technique that uses trigonometric identities to quickly approximate a product of 2 numbers by turning it into an addition. It was the only known technique to do so, preceding by 25 years the discovery of the logarithm
8aa6L TIL Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb. He merely improved Joseph Swan’s design which had been patented 10 years before Edison. Swan sued Edison for patent infringement and won.
MLwb TIL some people can voluntarily equalize the pressure in their ears by ‘flexing’ open their eustachian tube.