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6EaGW TIL that Paris gets its name from the Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, who between 250 and 225 BC, settled on the banks of the Seine, built bridges and a fort, minted coins, and began to trade with other river settlements in Europe
nera9 TIL In 1942, while stranded in enemy waters, the Dutch warship HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen evaded detection by the Japanese and escaped to Australia while disguised as a tropical island.
BLdD TIL that the geometric texture on scifi spaceships is called Greeble
kJ145 TIL Common Smoke detectors in Russia use weapons grade Plutonium-239 for the source.
M7XPb TIL: The caloric energy contained in a doughnut, about 450 Kcal, is close to that of a stick of dynamite.