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TIL that originaly, the Celcius temperture scale went backwards, with 0°C being boiling and 100°C freezing water

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9wJj6 TIL that the US didn't have a unified intelligence agency until 1941, when Royal Navy Admiral John Godfrey, director of Naval Intelligence, met with President Roosevelt and urged its creation. Roosevelt agreed. Godfrey's assistant at the meeting was Lt. Cdr. Ian Fleming, who later wrote James Bond
kWB TIL If you are an AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint or Bell Mobility subscriber, you can report spam texts to your carrier by copying the original message and forwarding it to the number 7726 (SPAM), free of charge.
neDQb TIL The author of the Constitution's preamble died from trying to clear a urinary tract blockage by using a piece of whale bone as a catheter
mxvAv TIL mob informant Henry Hill - subject of the movie "Goodfellas" - on the first day of his new identity in Witness Protection, took his family to dinner at a Godfather's Pizza franchise as a joke.
Zp4RR TIL that prisons in Brazil use gaurd geese instead of gaurd dogs.