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Today I learned that the word broadcast is actually an agricultural term that describes the process of scattering nutrients or seeds onto the ground indiscriminately.

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j68Rj TIL about The Public Universal Friend; a genderless American Quaker who preached in the late 1700s.
6kWw TIL that only one nation in the world has mandatory and enforced with fines, helmet laws for all bicyclists. New Zealand.
ERmo TIL a massive international airport was built in Spain at a cost of €1.1 billion. It attracted very little airline traffic, being 200 km from the nearest city, and closed four years after it opened.
GdmG TIL Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid a conflict of interest during his presidency.
N7reP TIL almost all coins used in Israel today are based on ancient designs found in archeological digs. The Bank of Israel actually mints coins that are designed to look like ancient Israeli coins from antiquity.