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TIL that octopus wrestling was once a documented hobby.

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ne0EG [TIL] that officially, the United States doesn't use a "Penny". Rather, the coin is actually called a "One Cent Piece", or just a "Cent".
b9a1p TIL of Kari's Law. In 2013 a woman was murdered in a hotel room by her husband while her nine-year-old daughter tried to call 911 four times. The calls did not go through because the hotel phones required all calls to start with 9 (making 911 9911). The law removes the need for the 9 in hotel phones
a9KN TIL That the Mongolian Navy consists of a single tugboat manned by seven men, only one of whom knows how to swim.
epQM6 TIL for most engineering, scientific, and everyday computer calculations, only about 15 to 17 decimal places of Pi are used, because this matches the precision of double-precision floating-point numbers, the standard format for numerical calculations in modern processors
OG466 TIL about Dr. Jesse Bennett, the first American physician to perform a C-Section, which he performed on his own wife