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TIL that the treadmill was invented as a form of punishment for prisoners

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awyDJ TIL Leicester physics graduates concluded that Star Trek's tribbles would fill the USS Enterprise in 4.5 days. Using Spock's estimate that each tribble can birth 10 offspring in 12 hrs. amounting to 1,777,561 tribbles in 3 days they added an exponential growth rate of 18.4×109 tribbles.
xr11 TIL that in French, Catalan or in Occitan, “cul-de-sac” literally means “ass of a bag”. J. R. R. Tolkien used the name Bag End as a literal translation of “cul-de-sac”, to poke fun at the British use of French terms.
4rNo TIL the Bureau of Indian Affairs still sends bolts of cloth every year to New York Indian tribes as part of the debt owed from the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794
Y7yeB TIL that 7 years after his Eurovision performance, Kristian Kostov of Bulgaria remains the only one among winners and runner-ups to be born in 2000s
N7moP TIL of the song "Ngge Loves a Watermelon", also known as that melody played by ice cream trucks.