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TIL There are about 50,000 megaliths (Large stones used in various types of Neolithic monuments) in Great Britain and Ireland

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VkKB TIL A BBC News sign langauge interpreter spent months embellishing the news with ridiculous details before she was sacked.
8axDV TIL that during WWI, no foreign coaling stations were available to Germany, and its coast was blockaded. So the Germans outfitted a sailing ship as a commerce raider and disguised it as a Norwegian woodcarrier - it sailed past the British blockade and captured 15 ships over the next two years.
R5N11 TIL Flowering plants first appeared 15 million years after the Jurassic period ended
J17xB TIL Many Amazon Prime Day Deals are fraud and one needs to check price history before buying even from established sellers. For example, "Wyze Lifestyle" jacked up prices for their Wyze Scale X products on Prime Day only to bring them back down with a "Prime Day Deal" (https://imgur.com/Zi8yNVF).
wLNO6 TIL that French call AA batteries "Mignon" (french for 'cute' or 'adorable') and Poles call them "Paluszki" (meaning 'little fingers')