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• TIL: What does the word “gubernatorial” mean?

  It’s anything related to a governor, and mostly used for the governors of US states.

• TIL: The British Forces Post Office (BFPO) and the Loamshire Regiment

  The BFPO sends post to the armed forces and MoD personnel, but they’ll never send it to the Loamshire Regiment, which is just a placeholder name for documentation.

• TIL: What does “insomnolent” mean?

• What is psephology?

  It’s the scientific study of elections and voting, and it comes from the Greek word for “pebble”, because pebbles were used for voting in ancient Greece.

• TIL: Calley-ope (calliope) Syndrome is pronouncing a word wrong because you’ve only ever read it on the page