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TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien created the words “dwarvish” and “dwarves”, countering the spelling at the time of the books publication which was “dwarfish” and “dwarfs”, and many dictionaries now consider this the proper way to spell the words.

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A9od TIL Ng Mui, a legendary Shaolin nun, met a teenage girl named Yim Wing-Chun who was being harrassed into marrying a thug and taught her how to defend herself. Hundreds of years later, Bruce Lee would learn what is now called Wing-Chun, a form which was specifically made for a woman by a woman.
EgEOx TIL construction on the Empire State Building started on March 17, 1930, and the building opened thirteen and a half months afterward on May 1, 1931.
4X59R TIL that these tiny worm kind things we see in our eye are called floaters and are tiny things like gel or cells in our eye balls that just cast shadows on the retina.
JXdm TIL that the Channel Tunnel, a rail tunnel with the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, has full mobile phone coverage.
7dbM TIL coal companies fund a group to file frivolous lawsuits against climate scientists