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TIL that 3 meals a day, Breakfast, lunch and dinner, is a relatively new phenomenon.

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ynDw TIL that Melbourne, Australia was once called ‘Batmania’. Named after the Tasmanian explorer John Batman.
X011P TIL that two scientists realised that the very same AI/ML technology they developed to discover medicines for rare diseases could also discover 40,000 new chemical weapons in under a day.
nWjPW TIL of a Spokane fraudster who ran a car accident insurance fraud scheme that involved many conspirators. He would fake car crashes that involved ramming the cars himself, inflicting injuries on selected fake victims, with them even carrying bottles of urine to pour over themselves for the act.
wP51 TIL Syndrome (The villain from The Incredibles) is named for Hero syndrome, where a person creates a dangerous situation in which they can be the hero
mmKY TIL No one knows where the word “dog” originally came from. Appearing without cognates in Old English, it displaced the more common “hound” within 400 years and went on to find its way into 7 other European languages.