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TIL that Ecuador is named after being on the equator and is in fact the only country in the world named after a geographical feature

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grwP9 TIL That going postal is an American English slang phrase referring to becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment. The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1986 with the United States Postal Service (USPS).
gYaL TIL American roulette wheels are different than wheels in other parts of the world. Casinos in the U.S. use a 0 and double 0 to decrease the odds of winning to 1/38, while other countries use just 0, making the odds 1/37 when betting individual numbers
VMRBG TIL that Robert E. Lee greduated second in his class from the United States Military Academy. More impressive however, is that he recived no demerts his entire time there. To this day, that has never been matched.
E1kv7 TIL that if the US in 1920 were a country now, its real GDP per capita (not national GDP) would be somewhere ranked ~#160 globally, competing with countries like Syria, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, or Afghanistan.
99L7 TIL that shrimp trawling can waste up to 20 lbs of “other fish” in order to get 1 lbs of shrimp. This is known as Bycatch