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TIL That Magpies hold funerals for their dead

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9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
neLY9 TIL Victorian upper class society ate ice cream and ices with a specialized fork (that was definitely a spork)
wGVY TIL that besides gold, Fort Knox has also held, among other things, the US Constitution, part of the Hungarian Crown Jewels, and reserves of morphine and opium.
kJx5W TIL:Iin 2001, the eponymous 'Girl from Ipanema' (Heloísa Pinheiro) wanted to capitalize on the famous song by naming her boutique 'Garota de Ipanema', and was subsequently sued by the song's copyright holders.
9Ykr6 TIL that in 1938, Henry Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle. That is the medal awarded to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism.