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TIL jeans originally had that extra pocket “as a protective sleeve for cowboys’ pocket watches.”

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rNl4W TIL the main key to the Bastille is kept in George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon. It was given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette in 1790, who wrote “It is a tribute which I owe as a son to my adoptive father, as an aide-de-camp to my general, as a missionary of liberty to its patriarch.”
xGB7 TIL that “it is practically impossible to write French correctly using a keyboard that has been bought in France”, says the country’s government. Because the AZERTY layout makes typing certain accented letters difficult (especially capitals), many don’t use them, changing the language.
rNK1w Today I learned that the english language got so many different names for a group of animals
6Z97 TIL that Cate Blanchett’s Academy Award for playing Katherine Hepburn in “The Aviator” made her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor
9w6VX TIL: In 2010, New Jersey lost $400 million in federal education reform money due to submitting data from the wrong school year. This lost them 4.8 points, making them fall 3 points short of receiving federal aid which went to Ohio instead. People have called this a "stunning $400 million mistake"