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TIL a large group of flamingos is called a flamboyance
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TIL Vice investigated how easy it is to acquire nuclear weapons on the black market, and got as far as an exchange for acquiring a nuclear “Dirty bomb”
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TIL of a Welsh village Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch named as a publicity stunt in 1869 to give the railway station the longest name in Britain. It means: St Marys Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel Near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Llantysilio of the Red Cave.
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TIL about a study that measured a sample of teaspoons and tablespoons. Because the sample varied so much in capacity, the study concluded that teaspoons and tablespoons seem to be unreliable for administering medication doses.
gAVD
TIL: That on 9/11, after the first plane hit the North Tower of the WTC, people in the South Tower wanted to leave but were advised by a announcement to stay at their desks. Some of those who tried to leave anyway were turned back by security in the building before the exits. 1,120 died.
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TIL In 1900s, Minnie M. Cox, the first African-American woman postmaster in the United States, was forced to resign due to threats of physical harm from local white citizens. President Theodore Roosevelt, feeling Cox had been wronged, closed the post office and continued to pay her salary.