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TIL: Boredom enhances creativity in child. A simple concept that isn’t popular.

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KO5ZJ TIL the word “mile” originally comes from the Latin phrase “milia passuum” which means “1000 paces” as paces was the way Romans measured distances.
6n6Q TIL there is a stadium in Brazil in which the midfield line lies on the Equator, making each team defend one hemisphere.
yVyye TIL that the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada was established in 1979 after the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement overthrew the previous Grenadian administration. Grenada was still a commonwealth realm during this time, making it a socialist state with Elizabeth II as its monarch.
ne0MP TIL McDonalds did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons
7AYx TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated when high levels of dioxin were discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.