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TIL the OTAN initials in NATO's emblem are its french name

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69dMY TIL: In Massachusetts, if you are divorced and live with your ex "as husband and wife" you can be guilty of adultery.
X01OP TIL that the names "Arctic" and "Antarctic" comes from the Greek arktos, “bear,” because the constellation Ursa Major, “the greater she-bear” (also known as the Big Dipper), is always visible in the northern polar sky. “Antarctic,” then, means “opposite the bear.”
16OB7 TIL John D. Rockefeller's dad, William Rockefeller was a snake oil salesman and accused of assault .
XE99r TIL Hamburg, Germany has more bridges than any other city in the world and more canals than Amsterdam and Venice combined.
0wE61 TIL that the Texas School Book Depository building, from where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President of the United States John F. Kennedy, was slated for demolition prior to the assassination, but was then preserved to investigate the murder, and is now a museum and National Historic Landmark