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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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djd9 TIL a pair of tortoises have been further into space than any human being. They went around the Moon in Zond 5, before returning to Earth. Both tortoises survived.
XEaPj TIL that the "I" and "O" of a power switch are internationally-recognized symbols for "ON" and "OFF" because they are the binary symbols representing ON (1) and OFF (0), decided by the IEC (International Electrotechnical Committee)
Pjyw TIL that the world record for drinking a yard of beer was once held by former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke.
5VOdB TIL Australia sends all adults over 50 a FREE bowel/colon cancer screening test in the mail
GYKgQ TIL Sanora Babb was writing a book about the Dust Bowl but John Steinbeck stole her notes to write The Grapes of Wrath, and as it was felt the market couldn’t support two books about the subject, her book remained unpublished until 2004.