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TIL: difference between acronym and initialism

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KQlG TIL that it is (generally) a violation of the National Labor Relations Act for a US company to tell its employees that they are not allowed to share their salaries with their peers.
0dYdN TIL that in 1964 Joe Bonanno plotted to assassinate the leaders of the American Mafia "Commission", the board of directors of organized crime. He would fail, and be stripped of leadership.
XEX4D TIL the Spanish singer-songwriter Julio Iglesias was a professional footballer signed with Real Madrid. When he was recovering from an accident that ended his career, a nurse gave him a guitar so that he could recover the dexterity of his hands. In learning to play, he discovered his musical talent.
Rvna TIL no one knows what Jesus looked like; “The artistic depictions down the ages have total and complete variation, which indicates that nobody did a portrait of Jesus or wrote down a description, it’s all been forgotten.”
0wwZR TIL before the electric telegraph, there was a system called the semaphore telegraph, where signals were communicated visually using a network of towers topped with pivoting blades and paddles that could be rearranged to indicate different symbols