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

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AD5Ad TIL that presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline.
yQ7XM TIL that scientists placed speakers on dead patches of coral in the Great Barrier Reef and replicated the sounds of healthy coral reef. They discovered that twice as many fish arrived and stayed compared to equivalent patches where no sound was played.
7ryYb TIL that knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem was widespead in Old Babylonia(Iraq today) 1900 years BC, more than 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.
P7lg TIL the polish mathematicians were the first to break the enigma code. Not the British.
pYox4 TIL: A 1795 court case, Cutter V Powell, established contract law regarding substantive performance. A sailor agreed for a 10 week voyage, but died 7 weeks in. His wife sued to be reimbursed for the time he was alive. The court ruled that no payment be given as the contract wasn't complete.