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TIL capital letters were stored in the upper tray for typefaces. This is why they’re called uppercase.

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V8Y8 TIL that 3³ +4⁴ + 3³ + 5⁵ = 3435. It is a natural number that is equal to the sum of its digits each raised to a power equal to the digit. It’s called a Munchausen number, after Baron Munchausen. Besides 0 and 1, the only two numbers are 3435 and 438579088.
ADr74 TIL that the FBI has a rapid deployment Art Crime Team consisting of 20 special agents. Since its conception in 2004, it has recovered over 15,000 items valued at over $800,000,000
VMDnQ TIL that the term "lobby" comes from the ability of ordinary people to meet their representatives in lobbies and hallways of the UK Parliament buildings after debates
MrN7 TIL that the Illuminati was originally formed to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.
Y77oB TIL about Delhi’s Sabharwal family has got the rare distinction of being the only family where every single member is a doctor for the past five generations.