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TIL The discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced in Comic Sans font, causing outrage on Twitter - but also highlighting that the benefits of Comic Sans, which has been clinically proven to make reading easier and is used in treating dyslexia.

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b9rg0 TIL Digiorno Pizza goes by the name Delissio in Canada with the tagline "it's not delivery, it's Delissio."
woYoJ TIL The last time it took more than one ballot to elect the Speaker of the House was 100yrs ago in 1923.
loeJV TIL that crows can learn to make and use tools by observing other crows, or even just by seeing a tool.
v1RZx TIL the WHO has some very specific disease code classifications, such as "hurt at opera", "bitten by orca", "burn due to water skis on fire", and "unspecified spacecraft accident injuring occupant"
x6JbB TIL that Mary Edwards Walker, the only female recipient of the Medal of Honor, was a surgeon, abolitionist, prisoner of war and freethinker who challenged traditional gender roles. She was also a pioneer in a Victorian dress reform movement called "rational dress" as seen in photographs of the time