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TIL: Hundreds of thousands of US students disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere.

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1a1jd TIL about a traditional dish in Rochester made up of a disorganized combination of food known as the "Garbage Plate"
b6GD0 TIL: In 1985, Symbolics, Inc, registered symbolics.com, the oldest domain on the internet. Their refusal to openly collaborate on their work to improve MIT's Lisp software led Richard Stallman to create the GNU Software Foundation.
0reA TIL nearly ¼ of all mammal species are bats.
GwlN TIL that the oldest continuously serving navy in the world belongs to Portugal.
b9aA7 TIL Karl Dönitz became fuhrer after Hitler’s suicide, & his cabinet continued to have daily 10am meetings for about a month even though they had no power. They discussed how Germany should proceed after the war, despite the Allies showing absolutely no interest in adopting their plans