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TIL Betteridge’s Law states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

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KOLow TIL that the standard maps we see of the world are not an actual accurate ratio depiction and that everything away from the equator is exaggerated in size. It's known as the Mercator Projection and is still the standard used for nautical navigation.
LkLod TIL Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald was adamantly opposed to state regulation of firearms even though many in his own party worried about the proliferation of cheap, easily concealable handguns. He believed the right to carry weapons was an important component of British liberty
Br8e TIL that the “taste bud map” that we were all taught in school was disproved in 1974 but they continue to teach it because it is easier then changing it..
l0Y5 TIL Michael Faraday, the brilliant scientist, had a speech impediment and was one day beaten by the headmaster for it in school, he left school that day never to return
D1yej TIL when the US Military demanded a 'colour-only' bar in Bamber, UK, all three pubs in the village declared themselves to be for black people only, effectively denying white American servicemen an area to drink.