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TIL The Mysterious Bloop Recorded in The Pacific Ocean in 1997 Is Not a Large Unknown Organic Species, But Rather Enormous Ice-Quakes.

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4k005 TIL that Canadian wheat flour from Manitoba is prized in Italy, and is preferred for Neapolitan Pizza.
yLYJ TIL The US Congress voted to pay George Washington $25,000 a year. He declined since he valued his image as a selfless public servant but ultimately accepted to avoid a precedent where the presidency would be perceived as limited only to wealthy individuals who could serve without pay.
grkM4 TIL about the four-dimensional coordinate system from Princeton University and how a professor at Kyoto University named Ernesto Lindgren the Modern Gaspard Monge days before he passed. The news is from the book "Encyclopedia of Four-Dimensional Graphics" by Koji Miyazaki of Kyoto University.
Xdn6 TIL the phrase"cold shoulder"stems from a particular way to serve food to an unwanted guest.In this case “cold shoulder” was the serving of an inferior cut of meat, namely a"cold shoulder of mutton"to an uninvited guest, as opposed to serving a hot meal that was fresh out of the oven to an invitee.
rRRmy TIL Neil Armstrong's boots are still on the moon.