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May 14, 2020

TIL Eleven and Twelve do not follow the teen pattern because they come from Old English terms that mean "one left after ten" and "two left after ten," or "ain-lif" and "twa-lif," due to the fact that these numbers were used commonly, unlike the other teens, and therefore developed much earlier.

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Mar 27, 2020

TIL in Scrabble, The Word "OXYPHENBUTAZONE" is Theoretically the Highest Possible Scoring Word, Netting 1778 Points. It Has Never Been Played.

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Mar 26, 2020

TIL that the saying “put a sock in it” is believed to come from the early 20th century, when people would stuff socks into their gramophones (a device for recording, reproduction and sound), to make it quiet, because the gramophones did not have volume controls.

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Jan 27, 2020

TIL one of the meanings of the early American word "Huckleberry" was that someone was the right person for the job. When Doc Holliday says, "I'm your huckleberry" in the movie Tombstone, Doc is saying he's the man to fight the villain.

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Nov 07, 2019

TIL that the fruit, orange, was named before the color, which was commonly referred to as “yellow-red.” Hence why people with orange hair are called “redheads” and not “orangeheads.”

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Aug 13, 2019

TIL we call people with red hair "red heads" as opposed to "orange heads" because the phrase has been around longer than the colour orange. The colour orange was described as red up until the 1500's when the first reference of orange in the English language can be found.

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Jun 18, 2019

TIL of the "grammar vigilante" in Bristol, he sneaks out at night time to fix mistakes and add apostrophes on different business signs around the city.

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Jun 07, 2019

TIL one typo lead to the hire of a Geoffrey Tandy, a seaweed expert (cryptogamist) instead of a codebreaker (cryptogramist) during WW2, but the help of the seaweed expert accelerated the end of the war by 2 to 4 yrs saving millions of lives in the process

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