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TIL William Faulkner refused a dinner invitation from the White House because he thought it was "a long way to go just to eat."

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A8El TIL of the urumi, a flexible whip sword no longer used in battle, but still practiced as an extremely dangerous martial art.
QpXp TIL Sard, the language spoken on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, is much nearer Classical Latin than any other surviving Romance language.
jkOa TIL British researchers found a 60-year-old woman who has been unable to recognize voices, not even her own daughter’s. Unless she sees the face of the person speaking, she has no idea who is talking to her. After university research, she was found to recognize only one voice-that of Sean Connery.
M7AwV TIL the Letters Q, W, and X were ince illegal in Turkey
9Y5w6 TIL about randomart in ssh. It generates ASCII art from ssh keys. SSH keys are long strings of characters, and they are easy to verify with a computer, but difficult for humans to verify visually. If you regularly ssh to a server, it's anticipated that you'd notice any changes to the picture.