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TIL: the word “synonym” has a synonym and it’s “Poecilonym”
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TIL JJ Abrams was going to go to Film School but went to an academic college on his father’s advice, “it’s more important that you go off and learn what to make movies about than how to make movies.”
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TIL on October 1st, 2023 Felix Hofmann set a new Cannonball Run world record of 32 hours and 27 minutes on a BMW M1000RR Superbike
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TIL of Fagging, a traditional practice in British public schools and also at many other boarding schools, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the eldest boys.
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TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, specifically for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing hearing aids, which he needed. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.
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TIL a Puritan was excommunicated for “neglecting his wife” by not having sex with her for two years