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TIL Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of very long words

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Y7JVP TIL Space Center Houston offers Astronaut Days where visitors can meet an astronaut, train like an astronaut, have breakfast with an astronaut. There is also the “All-American Meal,” modeled after the meal served on also S-135, the final shuttle mission
OoEje TIL in 2015 the Indiana Supreme Court banned a police officer from having "OINK" on their Fraternal Order of Police license plate.
dDXBj TIL that in 1860 President Buchanan vetoed the Homestead Act, stating it was unfair to "old settlers" who had paid for the land.
69MbZ TIL that many British people don’t rinse the soap off their dishes after washing them, and this practice is actually due to a fairy liquid advertisement that promoted their soap as not needing rinsing
OG6Z6 TIL A 72- to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study| The most complete fossil suggests that these dinosaurs developed bird-like postures close to hatching.