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TIL Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was named after Ronald Reagan.

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d8QB TIL Allan Moore’s 1986 graphic novel, “Watchmen” discusses “DUB music.” The character Ozymandias calls it “a sort of music of the future, a result of technological advances transcending the cultural barriers they set up”
le15 TIL that the Creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped two falsely accused men out of prison after solving the already closed cases.
epBE4 TIL about the State Banks of South Australia and Victoria, which were financial institutions owned by their respective state governments that collapsed during the 1990s due to poor investment and regulatory oversight, causing crises that brought down the two Premiers in power at the time.
rN7Lw TIL in the Pacific Theatre of WWil, the U.S. Army & Navy utilized ships called “BRL”s (Barge, Refrigerated, Large) whose entire purpose was to make & supply ice cream to increase troop morale. Each barge cost $1M, could produce 10gal of ice cream every 7min, and could store up to 2000gal.
X0rG6 TIL that a sea slug species steal chloroplasts from the algea it has eaten and uses them for photosynthesis.