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TIL "Qi" is the most commonly played word in Scrabble tournaments.

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wonpW TIL I learn about underwater logging (e.g., after flooding a forested valley for a dam project) and that there are harvester robots like the Sawfish Harvester that were invented exclusively for this kind of operation
wLWj6 TIL the word "moxie," as in "wow, you got moxie!!" comes from the name of a soda that was patented around 1876 as a supposed "nerve medicine" called "Moxie Nerve Food"
VM5yZ TIL of Brian Zimmerman, who gained national attention in 1983 for being elected mayor of Crabb, Texas, a town outside of Houston, at the age of 11. He won in a landslide with 23 out of only 30 votes cast. He ran on formally incorporating the town to avoid annexation, but was unsuccessful.
Y76QZ TIL art used to be a medal competition at the Olympics between 1918 to 1948 and only stopped because most of the contestants were professionals and not the required amateurs.
b6L6Z TIL: That when cast as a child prostitute in the movie Taxi Driver; Jodie Foster had to undergo psychiatric assessments and was accompanied at all times by a social worker on set. Her older sister Connie acted as her stand-in when it came to sexually suggestive scenes.