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TIL A Utah teacher was fired for writing an educational blog about “homophones”

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vPRmD TIL Natural gas, is odorized by the provider or supplier in order you to be able to smell it, and that rotten eggs smell we all know isn’t natural.
l5eA TIL Jurassic Park has just 15 minutes of dinosaur screen time.
RMal TIL that Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head while running for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorodo so he could refer to the Republican candidate as “my long haired opponent”.
KemJ TIL of Richard Jewell-A security guard who, initially hailed by the media as a hero, was later considered a suspect in the 1996 Olympic Games bombing in Atlanta. Despite never being charged, he underwent a “trial by media” with great toll on his personal and professional life
l7LvN TIL tiramisu, the Italian dessert of coffe-soaked ladyfingers, sweetened marscapone, and cocoa powder is only around fifty years old, having been invented somtime in the late 1960s or early 1970s.