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TIL the Vietnam War is known in Vietnam as the American War

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DAbv TIL IMDB is over 22 years old, and it started on USENET
oBp8 TIL that Cyberdyne, the company responsible for the genocidal robots in the Terminator, is a real company that creates artificial robotic limbs.
yOeX TIL Jimmy Carter has severed his ties with the Southern Baptist Convention in protest of their treatment of women
QJdXa TIL Turtles and tortoise don't "live in their shells", they ARE their shells, their spine is inside the shell.
nWXxo TIL the BIPM doesn't use a physical rod that's exactly 1 metre similar to the physical "Kilogram" specimen, instead use concise measurement of light & time defined in 1984 by the CGPM as the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 secs with time measured by a cesium-133 atomic clock.