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TIL this 80’s/90’s look actually has a name, and it’s called Memphis.

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wLPY8 TIL that in 1967, the two factions involved in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos.
j6Rv TIL that when a fish is caught and processed, most countries only utilize about 30% of it. The rest gets thrown away. Iceland, with it’s 96% utilization, is an exception.
KYXDR TIL sound travels at 343 m/s in air, 1,481 m/s in water (almost 4.3 times as fast) and at 5,120 m/s in iron (almost 15 times as fast) and in diamond sound travels at 12,000 metres per second (39,000 ft/s),[2]— about 35 times its speed in air because of how exceptionally stiff diamond is.
MePKa TIL about the Mugwumps, who were Republican political activists who voted Democrat in 1884 to protest GOP financial corruption...
PYYln TIL the "o" in o'clock stands for "of the" for example "four of the clock"