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TIL dry cleaning is not dry at all. It still involves washing the clothes, but with a special liquid solvent instead of water

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85KP TIL that after the US fought Britain, president George Washington vowed never to set foot in London again , so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Britain, they also included soil from Virginia to place under the statue.
XmKX TIL - The word vegetarian, coined by the founders of the British Vegetarian Society in 1842, The original meaning of the word implies a balanced philosophical and moral sense of life, a lot more than just a diet of vegetables and fruits.
JEDv TIL Queen Elizabeth II was one of the first heads of state to send an e-mail. The year was 1976. Her user name was “HME2” or Her Majesty, Elizabeth II.
yZaX TIL the reason a Blu-Ray disc holds 5x more data than a DVD is because a blue laser has a lower wavelength than a red one, which means it can read and write data more precisely, much like writing with a ballpoint pen instead of a crayon.
J7lV TIL that in Star Trek the voice of the Breen alien race was inspired by Lou Reed’s album Metal Machine Music, which the postproduction sound staff were instructed to listen to when creating the electronic cackle that served as the Breen’s voices.