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Today I Learned that Hobo, tramp and bum are not synonyms rather a strict hierarchy: Hobos travel and occasionally work; tramps just travel and bums do neither.

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Aeyo TIL There are 2 ATMs on Antarctica
ZmyQ TIL that the term ‘sour grapes’ originates from the Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes” (620–564 BCE), in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour. The moral that accompanies the story is that “any fool can despise what he can not get”.
L7Rm TIL that the only country in the world where women cannot vote is Vatican City
XEWgk TIL the longest-running video game series is, by far: The Oregon Trail. First published in 1971 by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, it beats out the next series (Pac-Man) by almost a decade.
wLY48 TIL The oldest-known message in a bottle was tossed overboard from a German ship in 1886 and found off the coast of Wedge Island, Australia earlier this year.