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TIL Forecast (relating to Weather) is an invented word in 1850's by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who also captained HMS Beagle during Darwin's voyages. The concept of a weather forecast was met with amusement and some of the earliest users were people betting on horse races

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GpE5 TIL when Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the all-black 54th Regiment during the American Civil War, died at Fort Wagner, he was stripped and buried with his men as an insult. His father, however, proclaimed that he was proud to know that he rests with his brave and devoted soldiers.
pY0np TIL that Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 was the first comet observed to orbit a planet, Jupiter, and its fragments collided with the planet in 1994, releasing energy equivalent to 600 times the world's nuclear arsenal.
grKky TIL about the invariant right theory. This is the theory that most people will turn to their right when entering a store. It is theorized that people unconsciously favor turning right because most people are right handed.
QNBLX TIL I learned of Emperor Glycerius, who was a western roman emperor who became bishop of Salona in what is now Croatia after he was deposed of his Imperial office.
1anaX TIL that Stephen King bought the van that hit and nearly killed him, for $1500 to prevent fans from buying it, and he announced that he was ‘going to take a sledgehammer and beat it’.