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TIL that because salt was so highly valued in the ancient world, the modern word for “salary” is derived from the latin word for salt.

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KOLR TIL a Russian man named Vissarion says he’s the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and lives with up to 10,000 of his followers on a mountain in Siberia
MNXb TIL in June 2006 a Google Earth user discovered a very detailed 1:500 scale terrain model of a disputed border region with India near a Chinese military complex, it’s 3,000 × 2,300 ft large
dj98 TIL Mac users prefer bigger fonts than Windows users, because Apple doesn’t use ClearType font rendering technique (patented by Microsoft) that improves the readability of smaller fonts
Z8wp TIL that Martin Luther King, Jr. considered himself a Trekkie, convinced Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) to stay on the show, and that he told her that “Star Trek” was “the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch.”
v1keD TIL that Miitopia, a game for the 3DS, is the first and currently only Nintendo developed game to receive an adult rating, as in Russia, any game showing same sex relationships in a positive light gets an automatic 18+ rating, despite everything else in Miitopia being child friendly