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TIL The dot placed over the lowercase letters i and j is known as a Tittle

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KOEo9 TIL that Kevin Smith actually worked at the convenience store in Clerks. He worked all day, and they filmed all night (thus the closed shutters) for 21 straight days. He slept one hour a day during filming. The whole production cost $27k, funded by maxing out credit cards and selling his comic books
JDVk TIL that the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight in 1903 “did not create public excitement—if people even knew about them—and the news soon faded”. In fact, they were largely mocked and disregarded until a demonstration in France nearly 5 years later.
D5DP TIL Aflac, An American ‘insurance company’ has been rated as one of the most ethical companies for seven straight years.
b60l9 TIL that, even 35 years after the disaster, Chernobyl will be habitable again in about 20,000 years. Visiting is now considered safe, but there are still risks associated with touring due to the structural instability of the ruins.
X0ZVE TIL about Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, the former president of Turkmenistan that ordered to close all the Hospitals in the country except for the ones in Ashgabat