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TIL Ben Franklin created a list of 228 ways to describe drunkenness. It's called The Drinker's Dictionary.

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R7oYw TIL a magnetar star on the other side of the galaxy experienced a "star quake". In a tenth of a second, a flare was released during the quake with more power than what our sun can produce in 150,000 years.
xVdPb TIL the British rail service is so ludicrous that one delay was caused because the Train Operator and Network Rail would not agree about the size of a Pheasant that was hit.
R7XpQ TIL pepperoni is an American invention. It's similar to the spicy salamis of southern Italy, but it also has elements characteristic of German sausages (smokiness, beef content, and fine grind). In Italian, "peperoni" just means "bell peppers".
neJJY TIL Iceland has a Horse Naming Commission that oversees horse names across the country to ensure that no horse gets a foreign, vulgar, or inappropriate name.
mn0x TIL that the shape of an Pringle is called »hyperbolic paraboloid«