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TIL Many schools don’t teach cursive writing anymore. When the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were introduced in 2010, they did not require U.S. students to be proficient in handwriting or cursive writing, leading many schools to remove handwriting instruction from their curriculum altogether.

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R5NP1 TIL Ancient Earth May Have Smelled Like Rotten Eggs
BeBd TIL that Australia is the only continent outside of Antartica WITHOUT an established deer population.
4kpmN TIL of the Bolvano Train Disaster which claimed the lives of more than 500 people in 1944. After the train became stalled in a tunnel, the passengers and crew succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning when the locomotives attempted to continue and filled the tunnel with smoke.
dEG9 TIL the water speed record hasn’t been broken in over 35 years. The reason, an 85% fatality rate.
NnVN TIL that the man who wrote “The Internet is for Porn” also wrote “Let it Go.”