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TIL that Times New Roman was commissioned by a British newspaper called The Times.

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Eg47w TIL Tom Lehrer, Mathematician, Musician, and Satirist also invented the Jello Shot while serving on a military base
LkMPV TIL about a 3000-year old Chinese tradition called Ghost Marriages, or the marriage of two people who died single. In some cases, the parents of unmarried men buy female corpses so their sons could have a wife in afterlife.
lonBN TIL Lt. Colonel Dale Zelko, who's F117A was shot down in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, is now friends with and runs a bakery with the Serb who shot him down: Colonel Zoltán Dani.
NkPE TIL the UK is the only country not required to name itself on its postage stamps.
QNLaM TIL it is possible for deaf individuals to 'hear' music using their hands and a balloon. It is possible for the brain to 'rewire' the auditory cortex to accept input from the mechanoreceptors in the fingertips instead of the eardrums.