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TIL: Reggae is actually derived from SKA, and not the opposite.

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kJOr5 TIL 32 years after the Hillsborough disaster, officials added a 97th victim to the death toll. Andrew Devine suffered irreversible brain damage in the crush and passed away in 2021
e67L TIL most Japanese schools don’t have janitors. Instead children do the cleaning daily as part of a practice rooted in Buddhist traditions that associate cleaning with morality.
5Y7o9 TIL The word “sinister” is a word English took from Latin meaning “left handed”
Z8QGG TIL that pillow fights were banned at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2015 after 30 people were injured.
kJGW4 TIL "Murphy's Law" originated during rocket sled tests that took place in 1948-49 at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California, and is named after USAF Captain Edward A. Murphy. Murphy went on to make crew escape systems for the F-4, SR-71, B-1 and X-15.