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TIL There are still Greek speaking remnants from ancient times in Southern Italy

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d1gE TIL in order to be qualified to pilot supertankers and other large vessels, pilot boat captains train on to scale versions that handle like their larger counterparts
pY8DG TIL that John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, was an early proponent of germ theory.
QJDWp TIL: In the Rock, Paper, Scissors game, on the first throw, paper is the best choice. Paper ties with paper and statistically, scissors is the least popular choice overall. Also, men favor rock.
xVKO7 TIL a tree was planted in memory of Beatle George Harrison in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park — and died after a beetle infestation.
veXL TIL the US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War. The mathematical modelling for the explosion was done by Carl Sagan.