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neX5Y TIL of Märket, a tiny island divided by the finnish-swedish border. When the finns inadvertedly built a lighthouse on the wrong side of the border, the swedes agreed to trade it for an equal spot of land on the other side, causing the border to zig-zag.
69eOJ TIL the logo of VLC media player is a traffic cone because the creators of the program had a traffic cone collection in their laboratory.
9wYOB TIL that The Beatles song 'Sexy Sadie' was originally called 'Maharishi' after John Lennon realised he was a fraud while in India
YpZnv TIL last words of murderer James French in the eletrical chair were "How's this for your headline? 'French Fries'"
p8jQQ TIL about absorption cooling: freeze things by burning stuff (or using residual heat from other processes, such as water heating). Patented back in 1859-1860, with the first commercial application in 1925, this process is still used today in gas powered refrigerators, typically found in RVs.