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TIL that it's "I were" if the situation is imaginary and "I was" if the situation happened in the past Eg, I was at the gym, If I were a billionaire. Which makes the song I wish I was a baller, a little bit taller grammatically incorrect

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N7rkP TIL Elephants are being hunted for their tusks so much that some populations of elephants have now actually evolved to be tuskless.
J7Vk TIL the letter ‘Q’ was illegal in Turkey until last month
QNlBM TIL of the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to matriculate at a British university in 1869. The university discriminated them with charging higher fees. As they arrived at their anatomy exam, several hundred male students pelted them with mud and other objects and shoved a sheep into the exam hall.
XPYQ TIL Einstein was an outspoken socialist and believed socialism was the natural course society would take.