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TIL there is a monument to Wikipedia in Poland.

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kyL5 TIL that the law of General Average allows shippers to jettison random goods off a ship in an emergency and that legally, everyone shipping goods on the same ship must share in the cost of the loss equally.
7NWO TIL a dеvicе was dеvеlopеd that could kill 100 mosquitoеs per sеcond, up to 100ft away, using infra-rеd motion cеnsoring & a Bluе lasеr. Thе idеa camе about aftеr Bill Gatеs rеquеstеd hеlp to fight mosquito-sprеad Malaria in undеrdеvеlopеd countriеs
97mp TIL a former slave ship captain wrote the song “Amazing Grace.”
N76mN TIL 1783 the grand master Philodor played and won three chess games simultaneously while blindfolded. Witnesses signed affidavits since they doubted future generations would believe such a feat was possible.
P1gjG TIL Photography was invented simultaneously by multiple people in different parts of the world using vastly different processes to produce a fixed image on a surface. Nicéphore Niépce / Louis Daguerre (France, 1826, 1839), Hércules Florence (Brazil, 1832), Henry Fox Talbot (England, 1834).