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TIL The source of the term "green room" has been lost to history.

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OvZe TIL that some languages don’t have the relative directions right/left. They instead use cardinal directions, for example: “It’s on the southern edge of the table.”
0wWvL TIL MIT lawyers did not patent turn-by-turn in-car navigation in 1989 because "This will never happen.. because the insurance companies won't allow it"
rN0QM TIL that the Emperor Vespasian issued out a tax on urine collected from public toilets
9wgEX TIL that the Imperial House of Japan is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world, having been traditionally founded in 660 BC, while the oldest historically-attested evidence of the dynasty dates to 539 AD, which was the start of Emperor Kinmei, who was the 29th Emperor to rule.
WW0B TIL that a recent medical study that discredited a low sugar diet was funded by Coca Cola, Hershey’s, General Mills, and several other major food companies.