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TIL there's a "grammar vigilante" who goes out in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place

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l7Pk1 TIL in the 19th century Abrahamic faiths made common the practice of reverential capitalization as a way to highlight words, such as Him and Light, when referring to the divine.
WmD4 TIL a circus elephant named Mary was hanged to death in front of people including children for killing the unqualified assistant elephant trainer immediately after he prodded her with a hook for no reason.
rvjo TIL of a family falsely accused of abusing their son. Following british law, all their kids were forcibly put up for adoption. They are not allowed to see them, even after being proven innocent. When she got pregnant again, they had to move to Ireland so their child would not be taken away at birth.
oBJ7R TIL that egg rolls are an American invention, but spring rolls are authentically Chinese.
eLGn TIL the term “third world country” has nothing to do with poverty, it simply refers to countries after WW2 that did not align with either the Western US aligned coalition or the Soviet bloc.