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TIL that the word helicopter is not split up into "heli" and "copter" but rather split into "helico" meaning spiral and "-pter" meaning one with wings

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KOkwG TIL America's first recorded murderer was John Billington, an original Plymouth colonist, also a signatory of the Mayflower Compact. He shot a young man who had recently migrated to Plymouth. The motives behind the murder were never recorded so it is still unknown.
6jeX TIL The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is loosely based on The Odyssey. The Cyclops enemy and Bag of Winds are directly lifted from The Odyssey, and both receive help from a deity along the way (Athena and Princess Mindy), + more
7rgKZ TIL the man in Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is not the one screaming, nature is. Munch says it depicts "a vast infinite scream through nature" that he felt. Because of the red skies in Norway at the time some believe that The Scream was from the Krakatoa Eruption.
ljoa TIL “thirty-nine places of pi suffice for computing the circumference of a circle girdling the known universe with an error no greater than the radius of a hydrogen atom.”
Wxb9 TIL pinball was illegal for over 30 years in America and even had it’s own crime boss who specialized in the illegal pinball machine industry.