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TIL “supper” and “dinner” are not interchangeable, but determine the size of the meal. Dinner is the largest, most formal meal

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wLaZE TIL about Māori chin tattoos. For Māori women, the traditional female chin tattoo is considered a physical manifestation of their true identity.
Egylp TIL that Babe Ruth, at the age of 40, hit his 714th and final home run over 500 feet, clearing Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field’s triple deck, and bouncing off a nearby resident’s roof
N7k7E TIL that due to the structure of Planet Earth, there are actually subterranean mountains some 410 miles down below the surface, with some being taller than Mount Everest.
VBjaG TIL about the ‘Doppler effect’ which explains why a siren's pitch changes as it passes by
vVN7 TIL there is a site where you can combine LEGO sets to find out what else you can build