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TIL the singular of “spaghetti” is “spaghetto”

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e0drJ TIL Hercules, Roman god and son of Zeus, killed his wife Megara and children. In repentance, Hercules had to complete the Twelve Labours of Heracles in order to become immortal. It took him 12 years to complete the journey.
07PL TIL a RAF pilot accidentally took off with a woman sitting on the tail of the aircraft. After a brief flight, the aircraft, pilot and “passenger’ landed safely.
XErGr TIL that there are currently more than a million people living underneath the streets of Beijing.
0w6L5 TIL there were lions in the wild of North Africa until the 1960s.
lxB5 TIL the inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.” - Philo T Farnsworth