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TIL that Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland because the first European colonists there were Scottish. So New England is next to New Scotland.

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eown TIL DJ Carl Cox played the Millennium (1999 to 2000) on New Year’s Eve twice, by performing in Sydney, Australia and again in Hawaii after flying back over the International Date Line.
E1mGo TIL that the rights to the film "Back to the Future" are entirely owned by its director Robert Zemeckis who has vowed for there to never, ever, be a reboot in his lifetime.
ZrgG TIL that “TV Pickup” is a phenomenon wherein people in Britain all simultaneously turn on their electric kettles during commercial TV breaks causing massive power surges countrywide.
LJZP TIL the Australian women’s national soccer team played a team of 15 year old boys to prepare for the summer Olympics in Rio and lost 7-0.
gpX9 TIL of Barnes Wallis, who in WWII not only invented the “bouncing bomb” which bounces on water to a target, but also the earthquake bomb which creates a 3.6 mag earthquake and was the largest non-nuclear bomb in the war.