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TIL strengths (9 letters) is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.

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R7BLl TIL Ching Chow, a comic strip that was filled with stereotypical Chinese jokes managed to stay in papers until 1990 and was popular among gamblers as they thought it contained secrets for sports betting
oDo8 TIL there is a grandmother that was attacked by a bear. After the attack she sewed her scalp, re-set her dislocated legs and then killed the bear…and ate it.
VB6km TIL In 2019 a Japanese University student studying ninja history turned in an essay written in invisible ink. The words only became visible when the paper was heated over a gas stove. Her professor without even revealing the whole essay gave her an A.
brL4 TIL that in Weird Al Yankovic’s parody ‘Amish Paradise’ where the scene is in reverse, Al lip synced the words backwards whilst shooting normally so when the scene was reversed Al’s lips matched the video.
PYkln TIL that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was the most costliest earthquake, causing about $360 Billion USD in damage overall, and that it was also the 4th strongest earthquake, with a 9.1 magnitude