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TIL Dreamt is the only word in English that ends in -mt

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jK4p TIL that six years of work by one man, underwater and in total darkness, saved Winchester Cathedral from collapse.
kJ8r4 TIL Venmurasu is the world's longest novel, spanning 26,000 pages. An Indian writer completed it in just six years. It is a modern retelling of the Indian classical epic Mahabharata, with some minor details expanded into standalone stories the length of a typical novel.
GYbb7 TIL nuclear physicist Nicholas Kemmer suggested the atomic symbol "Pu" for plutonium deliberately as a joke because it resembled "P.U." (an expression of disgust at a foul smell), yet no one objected, and it made it onto the periodic table.
JYDKl TIL Artimus Pyle, the drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, once entered the stage by being lowered on a trapeze rope while hallucinating on mescaline.
b9XeZ TIL Despite being long divorced Joe DiMaggio never stopped loving Marilyn Monroe. He had a half-dozen red roses delivered three times a week to her crypt for 20 years. His last words were: "I'll finally get to see Marilyn.".