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TIL that there's a font called Times Newer Roman which looks exactly like Times New Roman but is a tiny bit bigger so it looks like you wrote more.

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AD1aB TIL Karl Marx was known for his extravagant and wasteful spending
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xVolw TIL the world's oldest living clam, "Ming the clam", was accidentally killed when scientists tried to figure out how old it was. Upon inspection they found it was 507 years old, 100 years older than previously speculated.
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