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8eEjb TIL - about an 11-year-old boy from the Netherlands who won a Wolfson economics prize for his solution, with a pizza analogy, to the Greek debt crisis
GYNp5 TIL that "sinister" means "left" or "left-handed" in Latin from the word "sinus" meaning "pocket". In Roman togas, the pocket would be on the left side. This grew to left-handed people having unlucky or even evil connotations, which led to the modern English word "sinister".
jNQbn TIL that a snail has about 2,000-15,000 teeth.
9wJkQ TIL Jason Derulo’s stage name is a pronunciation respelling of his surname, Desrouleaux
m1pPy TIL The unit of measurement for buttons dates back to the 9th century. Its called a ligne, and is abbreviated as an L.