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TIL the word is "remuneration," not "renumeration"

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Jd0k TIL that a blogger found out that Ice Cube’s “Good Day” was January 20, 1992 due to events desrcibed in the song only occurred on that day.
EZd7 TIL Robert E. Lee not only considered slavery a moral & political evil, but his wife and daughter set up an illegal school for slaves at their Arlington plantation.
wBb1 TIL that a ‘second’ on a clock is called that way because it is the second division of an hour in 60 increments (the first being minutes)