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TIL that Wembley stadium used to be called Empire Stadium
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TIL that Israel drops "warning bombs" on Gaza prior to dropping actual bombs.
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TIL that “e pluribus unum” (“out of many, one”), which appears on the United States Great Seal, originates from an ancient culinary recipe describing the colour of what was being prepared going from the many colors of the ingredients to just one after mixing them all
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TIL that the reason why the Portuguese language calls the days of the week "feiras" is because they didn't want the classical names that were related to pagan gods, "feira" means "day of the week after Sunday"
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TIL that in China, 40% of engineers are women, and in the former USSR, women accounted for 58% of the engineering workforce.
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TIL of Judy Melinek, a medical examiner who identified hundreds of bodies from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, many of which were merely scraps of flesh or pieces of limb. She was called in mid-August 2002 because they had found a foot bone on top of another skyscraper 1/5 mile away.