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TIL of Blissymbolics, an unspoken, written language that was invented as an easy to learn form of communication for use between people of all languages

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M74dB TIL that despite being 8369 times bigger than Washington DC, Alaska has only 50k more people living in it.
wLXBY An almost sci-fi study published in Physical Review Letters by UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Peter Hintz and colleagues could mean that there are black holes out there that would be more like portals than gaping mouths of destruction — if you didn’t mind your entire past being erased and entering into infinite futures.
wL5d1 TIL that in 1999, an engineer earned 1.25 million air miles by buying 12150 chocolate puddings for $3000, all in one day. To avoid suspicion, he told people he was stocking up for Y2K.
Oo7Zg TIL In 1900s, Minnie M. Cox, the first African-American woman postmaster in the United States, was forced to resign due to threats of physical harm from local white citizens. President Theodore Roosevelt, feeling Cox had been wronged, closed the post office and continued to pay her salary.
9wP87 TIL New Zealand is only 6% of an underwater continent of nearly 5 million square kilometres (two-thirds the size of Australia, and larger than western Europe). That continent separated from the supercontinent of Gondwana between 85 million and 60 million years ago.