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TIL In English, adjectives go in this order: Opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose-noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.

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EJQ0 TIL that the Roman Emperor Commodus would fight in the arena as a gladiator. His opponents consisted of giraffes, citizens missing limbs and wounded roman soldiers. For every appearance in the arena he charged the city of Rome 1 million coins.
jNXnp TIL Copper destroys viruses and bacteria and protects people in contact with it in the context of their work
VGpB TIL In 1974, Kim Il-sung took 1,000 Volvo sedans from Sweden to North Korea and never paid for them
doyK TIL the morning of Super Bowl XLI, Don Mischer asked Prince if he would be ok to perform in the rain. Prince responded simply, “Can you make it rain harder”?
AgNn TIL a space time capsule has been proposed that would carry messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it would re-enter Earth’s atmosphere.