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TIL that the Royal Navy once saved 5 million pounds in training by having personnel shout "bang" instead of firing live rounds

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XEo1D TIL the names of the states Kansas and Arkansas have the same root, the name of the Kansa tribe, thought to mean "people of the south wind". However the 'kansas' in the states' names are pronounced differently due to Kansas being an English derivation, and Arkansas being a French.
78gar TIL that cows have best friends and become sad when they're separated
GYldG TIL Mathematician Leonhard Euler memory was said to have been so great that he was able to recite Virgil's Aeneid from beginning to end without hesitation. A text that is over 9000! lines long.
79X TIL that unlike chess, professional go players overwhelmingly defeat the best computers
X01YQ TIL Nasa estimates a 35% increase in heat transfer would reduce the chances of Yellowstone erupting to almost zero. One proposal is to simply pump more water into the supervolcano.