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6EpXW TIL There are 15 recognized champagne bottle sizes ranging from 185mL (about 1/4 a standard bottle) to 30 Litres (40 standard bottles). They all have unique names.
dXPd TIL that Saudi Arabia has a women’s only university with 52,000 students and its own rail system.
b9J0Z TIL about crystal radio, a radio receiver made with simple parts that needs no external power source, all it needs is a radio signal to produce sound.
R7A5j TIL about Eridu, the first sumerian city(in modern day Iraq in the mesopotamian region) founded in 5400 BC, originally located close to the Persian gulf at the mouth of the river, but is now at some distance from the gulf because of the accumulation of silt at its shoreline over a millenia.
D1Akg TIL the first can opener was patented 160 years ago, on January 5, 1858, fifty years after the can was invented. Prior to its invention, people used hammers and chisels to open cans.