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TIL The unit of Measurement "Acre" is the area that can be plowed in one day by Oxen pulling a wooden plow.

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LjeV TIL in Connecticut in 1923, you could be fined or imprisoned for observing Daylight Saving Time
1a887 TIL a 2017 University of Iowa experiment concluded that pigeons can understand concepts of space and time, but not exactly how they do it. The birds “judged longer lines to also have longer duration and judged lines longer in duration to also be longer in length.”
v1nA7 TIL that in 1829 the British Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, took part in a pistol duel with an Earl who had vehemently disagreed with his plan for Catholic Emancipation. Neither man managed to shoot the other, and the Earl later wrote him an apology
N7OYJ TIL in 1956 the Soviet Union had considered a plan to build a 55-mile dam across the Bering Strait, pump warm water into the Arctic Ocean, and thaw Siberia.
51On TIL that the co-inventor of the popular ‘90s toy “Skip It” also founded Marvel Studios.