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TIL: Paul Revere was the first person in the USA to learn how to roll copper in 1801 and formed Revere Copper. That company is still the only copper mill in the United States

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neKBb TIL that COLLABORATIONISM does not carry the same positive connotation as its root word. It instead refers to the carrying out an act of treason; most commonly applicable to WW-II
awPJZ TIL “that there is a girls school built on the place where Taliban had their headquarters in Northwest Pakistan”
d8GAj TIL George Orwell died the year after “1984” was published
neYgd TIL that CNN has a pre-recorded broadcast that was shot over 20 years ago set to be played in the event that the world is ending.
XRKX TIL that the ‘Lorem Ipsum’ text is typically a scrambled section from Cicero’s work 'De finibus bonorum et malorum’ ('On the ends of good and evil’) from the 1st Century BC. 'Lorem ipsum’ is derived from the Latin 'dolorem ipsum’ - “pain itself”.