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TIL of the "Tiffany Problem", where a historical or realistic fact is deemed anachronistic or unrealistic due to modern associations. Named after the name Tiffany, which is often considered a modern name but has medieval origins.

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kOlWg TIL: With over 11 million words, Devta is the world's longest novel. It was serialised monthly in a Pakistani suspense magazine for 33 years.
v1kn4 Today I learned about Time Crystals, discrete crystals that have a structure that repeats in time, causing them to resist entropy.
6P7Y TIL The Korean alphabet can be learned in about 15 minutes and is brilliantly simple.
XEEOX TIL that Florida lets you stay on your parents insurance until you are 30 as long as you are living with them (or a student), unmarried, and have no dependents of your own. Only six other states (IL, NJ, NY, PA, SD & WI) allow something like this.
eGoL TIL of “Shifting Baseline Syndrome”, where each generation uses previous reference points as baselines despite those points representing significant changes from even earlier states. Each generation defines the “natural” state differently, and large changes over time often go unnoticed.