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TIL: “Overmorrow” is the English word for “the day after tomorrow”. The common theory is that it sounded too ancient, even for 16th-century Middle English, and fell out of use.

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kO9Bm TIL George Hull, an atheist, after an argument about the existence of Giants at a Methodist revival, hired men to quarry out a 10-foot-4.5-inch-long (3.2 m) block of gypsum to fake a giant body was buried. Nearly a year later, he hired 2 persons to dig a well and claim that they have discovered it
kVVm TIL that the Jonas Salk, who developed the world’s first successful Polio vaccine, refused to patent his discovery. The vaccine was valued to be worth $7 billion had it been patented.
RynQ TIL that Germany has the lowest birth rate in the world while the highest birth rates are in Africa with Niger at the top of the list
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XE4KP TIL On January 1 2019, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain. This is the first public domain entrance of copyrighted material in 20 years.