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TIL that antidisestablishmentarianism, famous for being one of the longest words in the English language, is the belief that the government should continue recognizing an official state church.

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jl1E TIL we got the terms “bear market” and “bull market” from the ways the animals attack. Bears strike downward, while bulls launch themselves upward into the air.
LkW0Z TIL about Grace Hopper who was the inventor of the first compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer.
KOAJ TIL that there is a cemetery in Romania famous for their vibrant and colorful tombstones that artfully depict scenes from the buried person’s life, most often involving how they died. Each tombstone also has a poetic epitaph inscription.
kJ7m7 TIL about the first recorded divorce in US history, in which the husband later admitted to having two wives and refused to return to his first wife with whom he had left his two children.
ep5wL TIL Adidas acquired its signature 3-stripe logo from the Finnish athletic footwear brand Karhu Sports, for two bottles of whiskey and the equivalent of €1600 ($1805) in 1952