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TIL about a map of underwater cables

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GR4 TIL Plato’s real name was Aristocles, ‘Plato’ was a nickname (roughly 'the broad’) derived from the width of his shoulders.
GY7jj TIL King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein of Jordan is a Star Trek fan, and appeared as an extra on an episode of Deep Space Nine.
OoQ8Y In a new study in Science, a team of linguists at the University of Zurich uses biomechanics and linguistic evidence to make the case that the rise of agriculture thousands of years ago increased the odds that populations would start to use sounds such as f and v. The idea is that agriculture introduced a range of softer foods into human diets, which altered how humans' teeth and jaws wore down with age in ways that made these sounds slightly easier to produce.
6Jx8 TIL that in New Zealand, every high school is entitled to 1 pound of uranium and 1 pound of thorium, for experimentation. However, there is a fine of $1 million for creating nuclear explosions.
5QeD TIL that early in her career Mila Kunis, who immigrated from Ukraine, auditioned to play a Russian girl who moves to America. Instead, she was cast as a Mexican.