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Today I learned that the internet slang, 'goat' means Greatest of All Time

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xWEk TIL the kings in the 4 card suits supposedly represent great rulers in history. The king of spades is David, king of Israel; the king of clubs is Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia; the king of hearts is the French king Charlemagne; and the king of diamonds is the Roman Caesar Augustus.
8boK TIL bob ross made an episode where he painted all in grey for a colorblind viewer
bMZ4 TIL LAX has an X at the end because before the 1930s airports had two letter identifiers. When identifiers were switched to three letters, many just added an X at the end.
1MkW TIL That lobsters can be various colours due to the pigment astaxanthin, being blue or yellow after binding with some proteins. About 1 in 2 million lobsters are blue and 1 in 30 million are yellow. However, the rarest is a white lobster, with the chances of seeing one only being 1 in 100 million.
9YMJ7 TIL Concrete never stops curing. It will literally take forever to completely set. Also, cracking is a natural occurrence in concrete, so don't panic if you see a crack in your sidewalk.