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TIL: English is the only language in the top ten most spoken languages that does not have a regulatory committee to approve spelling.

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pnVA TIL 1.7-3.3%of fathers are unknowingly raising children that aren’t their own
P1aae TIL that in 1867, John A. Winston, a former Governor and Confederate Officer from Alabama, presented his credentials to the United States Senate as Senator-elect from Alabama. However, he was not allowed to take his seat because he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States.
16KlX TIL that it is possible to reach negative Kelvin in advanced physics: a system's temperature is above 0K if adding energy increases its entropy (disorder of the particles). However, once the entropy is maximum, adding more energy makes it decrease, meaning the system's temperature drops below 0K.
4XmY6 Today I learned that when the PBS Newshour lists their major financial contributors at the end of the program, the "Rosalind P. Walter" they thank is Rosie the Riveter.