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TIL about Robert Richards, a Du Pont heir who avoided jail time after sexually abusing his 3 year old daughter

TIL - the .ch country code is for Switzerland.

TIL the Ancient Romans could have played D and D because they (and the Egyptians) invented the 20-sided die.

TIL the word "stadium" derives from the Ancient Greek word "stadion" which meant exactly 600 human feet. Because the length of a human foot varies, this means it is between about 150 and 210 meters.

TIL that likely the very first person to ever survive rabies via inoculation was a 9 year old boy named Joseph Meister, who was infected in 1885 and inoculated by Louis Pasteur.

TIL the opera song used in recent Google Chrome ads was originally composed for the 2015 Steve Jobs biopic

TIL that a year after an officer pleaded guilty to lying to a judge to get the warrant to search Breonna Taylor's apartment, no one involved has served a day of jail time

TIL a fleet of electric taxi cars was first introduced to London, UK in 1897

TIL The sunrise/set duration changes throughout the year

TIL Where the word "scupper" comes from

TIL the correct spelling of "nowadays"

TIL on 1934 business leaders plotted to overthrow President Roosevelt and they weren't punished because they were too powerful

TIL South Carolina grows more than twice as many peaches than Georgia

TIL - Laboratory experiments show that bacteria really do eat and digest plastic

TIL of "feedback" where the pork industry intentionally feeds dead disease-infected piglets and their feces to adult breeding pigs

TIL of Naba Baongo II, a sub-national monarch in Burkina Faso. In 2015, he played a key role in ending a military coup in the country peacefully, without any bloodshed. His kingdom is 528+ years old

The CDC Monitors Your Waste for Signs of Covid-19

TIL in the 17th century, the San people in Southern Africa created rock art depicting colonial ships and colonists following first contact

Lobster's have two bladders that are located beneath their brain. They release urine to communicate with each other.

TIL of Taos Pueblo, a Native American 'Pueblo' built between 1000CE and 1450CE, containing some of the oldest continuously inhabited houses still occupied in the US