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Today I learned that Scots and Inuit made contact

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e08pJ TIL that the Ho Chi Minh trail was not simply a few footpaths but a network of tracks wide enough to drive trucks along, and multiple oil pipelines that by the end of the war had supplied 270,000 tonnes of petroleum to troops in southern Vietnam
B8My TIL that Google calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.
vRBK TIL There is a breed of sheep which lives on a beach and eats seaweed.
awgDZ TIL A roman scholar predicted microbiology over 2000 years ago, writing "there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases."
WNAB TIL that Versailles’s over 2000 fountains consumed more water per day than the entire city of Paris. To solve the water shortage, the fountaineers would signal each other upon the king’s approach to turn on the fountain. Once the king passed the fountain, it would be turned off again.