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TIL cursive handwriting is slower than print handwriting

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b9JoE TIL there is a radio station in New Orleans for the blind. Volunteers every day read the local newspaper on the air, along best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and much more.
6EBPW TIL that Maurice Sendak's classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" was supposed to be titled "Where the Wild Horses Are" but he realized he couldn't draw horses so he changed it to "things" instead
L0B0 TIL There is a chemical reaction that produces a tree-like formation of Silver. Many philosophers believed it could be “Life in the kingdom of minerals.”
GAoM1 TIL there were square halos. These were used in donor portraits, a depiction of the person who commissioned the artwork placed among saints, to mark the contemporary donor.
P1gow TIL that the Boston Tea Party was not called that until the early 1820s. Before that it was referred to as The Destruction of the Tea.