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TIL "The rabbit died" used to be a common euphemism for a positive pregnancy test

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neadW TIL under European law, all wine bottles bearing the name „champagne“ must be bottled within 100 miles of the champagne region of France. Any other „champagne“ is considered sparkling wine and must be labeled as such. It also must be hand-picked grapes pressed in a closed environment.
QM9L TIL A 1.91TB file is available for download that contains PI to 5 trillion decimal places
6A0l TIL that the term “debugging” actually originated, and was popularized by Grace Hopper when her associates discovered and removed an actual moth that was stuck inside a relay of the Harvard Mark II, impeding its performance.
GYeaQ Juno has returned another photo that looks like a painting.
eEx6 TIL that blond/blonde is one of few adjectives in written English to retain separate masculine and feminine grammatical genders