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TIL that Aegilops (a genus of Eurasian and North American plants in the grass family; types of goatgrass) is the longest English word with letters arranged in alphabetical order.

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rN9ew TIL that miniature horses are ADA service animals and are protected under law.
BrlAe TIL that C.S. Lewis died on the same day as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, resulting in Lewis's death being overshadowed by Kennedy's.
OGVN6 TIL from 1916 to 1917, Felix von Luckner of Imperial Germany led the SMS Seeadler, a sailing ship, to attack Allied merchant ships
J1Yom TIL in 2018, a leaping elk brought down a research helicopter in Utah.
W70r9 TIL the first film about the Titanic starred an actor who survived the sinking. Dorothy Gibson was playing bridge when the ship hit the iceberg and she escaped on the first lifeboat. She later starred in "Saved from the Titanic", in which she wore the same clothes that she wore on the Titanic.