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TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long.

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p89PO TIL a Secret Service employee at 7 World Trade Center, commended for his rescue work on 9/11, stole cars recovered on ground zero and gave them to his mother and daughter after producing false paperwork stating that the cars had been crushed at Fresh Kills.
XE1gX TIL that the first mention of a pen with ink reservoir came in 973 in the region of northwest Africa by Ma'ād al-Mu'izz. He wanted a pen that didn’t get his hand messy. The next mention came in the 17th century by a German inventor, Daniel Schwenter.
vlEB TIL in a private cemetery in Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
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