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TIL of ISO 3103, the international standard for brewing a cup of tea

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yV5Ba TIL the last full moon of the winter season is called the Worm Moon because it is when beetle larvae begin to appear after emerging from their winter hideouts... Bonus TIL the Farmer's Almanac has names for every full moon of the year.
0w9Qv TIL that in 1895, UK prime minister William Gladstone founded a public library. Aged 85, he wheelbarrowed his personal collection of 32,000 books the ¾ mile between his home and the library. His desire, his daughter said, was to "bring together books who had no readers with readers who had no books"
oBLER TIL Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes franchise, once investigated a real murder and helped to exonerate an innocent man
grgZX TIL one of the largest great white sharks ever recorded in the Atlantic, a 14-foot male named Contender, was spotted near Pamlico Sound, NC
yV87X TIL that 13% of finishers tested at the 2002 Boston Marathon had hyponatremia (caused by overconsumption of fluids)