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TIL that in the early 1900s, there was a movement to simplify English into a phonetic language (where each letter represents one sound)

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ZgLa TIL the Southern Baptist denomination was created for the sole purpose of supporting slavery in the South, they didn’t apologize for their stance on slavery until 1995.