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TIL that brothers Winthrop and Nelson Rockefeller were state governors at the same time; Winthrop as governor in Arkansas and Nelson in New York.

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D1ev TIL before syphilis had a name, it had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany; the “Italian disease” in France; the “Spanish disease” in the Netherlands; the “Polish disease” in Russia; the “Christian disease” in Turkey; and the “British Disease” in Tahiti.
6E6rX TIL the difference between stamina and endurance. Stamina is the amount of time one can perform an action at maximum capacity (ex: sprinting), endurance is the maximum amount of time one can perform an action (ex: a marathon)
a0mM TIL A team of Sydney university students have cracked the secret algorithm used on Sydney’s public transport systems allowing them to print their own tickets
6gOw TIL that a secret radio belonging to a British POW in WWII was kept so well hidden that when he visited the camp 62 years later it was still there.
Xe68 TIL Lobsters can live to be 140 years old!