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E1Zex TIL that the word 'bald' in 'bald eagle' has nothing to do with the definition as a lack of hair. Rather, the term bald eagle is derived in English from the word 'piebald', in reference to their white heads and tail feathers in contrast to the darker color of the rest of their bodies.
klO7 TIL that there is a dwarf planet in our solar system that is 8 billion miles away and takes 10,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.
YpXKA TIL that the woman who accused 14 y.o. Emmett Till of flirting with her admitted that she lied 62 years later. Till was brutally lynched by the woman’s husband and his cousin based on her accusation. Images of his mutilated body are credited with sparking the Civil Rights movement.
x6Vr7 TIL about a super modern €1.4bn nuclear power plant in Austria that never went into service, because a 50.47% majority in a referendum voted against it.. after it was built.
aKKA TIL in 2004 a customer in Las Vegas walked into an In-N-Out and ordered a 100x100. That’s 100 beef patties and 100 slices of cheese, which the restaurant obliged as until then they accommodated orders of any size at extra cost. Since then In-N-Out changed it’s rules and capped the burger at 4x4.