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TIL Acronyms are pronounced as if it were a word like “SARS.” Unlike initialisms like “ATM” which are pronounced using the names of its letters.

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DaGP TIL in 2010 a plane crashed in Tripoli, Libya. All of the passengers and crew (in total 103) died except for one child, a 10-year-old Dutch child
KdAJ TIL items confiscated by the TSA (including weapons) end up getting sold back to the general public in state-run auctions.
YpjK7 TIL about Clementine Barnabet, an American teenager who murdered and beheaded 35 people with an ax due to her belief in a voodoo cult called the Church of Sacrifice. Sentenced to life in prison at age 18 in in 1912, she escaped in 1923 and was never heard of again.
GYYwG TIL that although outlawed in 1911, the ban on the Chinese practice of footbinding only began to be enforced six years ago.
nBjP TIL that a member of metal band ‘Pig Destroyer’ created a side project with a parrot as the lead vocalist. They had 3 EPs.