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TIL Thomas Jefferson wanted to adopt the metric system in the United States, but pirates of the Caribbean hijacked its adoption

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olro TIL That the “Windy City” of Chicago is not called this because of the actual wind! Instead for the “full-of-hot-air politicians”
8elEa TIL of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 which crashed into terrain on September 11, 1974, killing 72. Among them was the VP for academic affairs of the Medical University of South Carolina and two of his sons - the father and brothers of future tv personality Stephen Colbert.
0d4x1 TIL about bird-hipped and lizard-hipped Dinosaurs. And that birds are descended from lizard-hipped Dinosaurs
jEwR TIL the opposite of sparkle is darkle.
7rmJr TIL of beaked whales, a set of 22 species of whales with beaks like dolphins, some of which reach sizes of over 42 feet and which prey on colossal squid in the deep sea.