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TIL of the Harvard Sentences, a set of phonetically-balanced words used to test audio quality. It is used to test phone call quality, text-to-speech programming, and more.

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D17Jg TIL that the actors who played Ferris Bueller’s parents fell in love and got married after filming
awRYJ TIL of Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian revolutionary whose English speeches were wildly popular in 1850s America. He learned his archaic English from Shakespeare books while in prison; such speeches even influenced the Gettysburg Address, as Abraham Lincoln was a noted fan.
W7N9B TIL some cactus grow their own sunscreen, but only near the top of the cactus, to protect themselves from the noonday sun
xV9Wb TIL Greta Thunberg is 4'10'' tall
P1PZO TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza”