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TIL Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, trams resumed their routes in the ruins of the city.

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ANR4n TIL there is a Kenyan fintech app called Okash that threatens to notify everyone on the users contact list if they fall behind on their repayments.
R5804 TIL that I've been calling everything an ACRONYM when in fact they could instead be an INITIALISM. An acronym can be spoken like a word e.g. FIFA, NASA, RAM, where as an initialism cannot be easily spoken as a word e.g. FBI, CIA, UFO, HSBC, and are instead pronounced letter by letter.
neRBW TIL Mississippi, the poorest state, has 33,792 millionaires and 12 billionaires.
MeDl7 TIL A boy whose whole body looked like an open wound because of a genetic condition which led his skin to be paperthin, had a skin sample taken, its DNA repaired, & the modified skin cells grown to make skin grafts totalling 0.85 sq m. He now leads a normal life.
Me6MW TIL Rep. John Lewis co-wrote March, an award-winning graphic novel trilogy about the civil rights movement