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TIL that "aubergine" is another name for eggplant

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Lkkdr TIL the ground is the same as the floor, but on the outside.
1ayAW TIL of the oldest human structure. Predating Mesopotamian civilization and Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Gobekli Tepe. Researchers determined a pillar (pillar 43) depicts a comet colliding with Earth over 10,000 years ago causing a millennia of global cooling.
LQLE9 TIL that Tennessee, Utah, Florida, Indiana, and South Carolina license plates reverse order of numbers vs letters based on if the plate has In God We Trust on it.
vP1wL TIL In 1978 a drunk guy tripping on LSD tried to blow up a dam in Nashville TN w/ his friends in order to loot the submerged town with through the use of scuba diving equipment
GAww1 TIL that in 1926, Nikola Tesla predicted modern cell phones. Tesla described a future "when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth" in a way that allows humans "to communicate with one another instantly irrespective of distance" with the clarity of a face-to-face meeting using a device.