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TIL that Ben Affleck was as disappointed by Daredevil as the rest of us, calling it the only movie he actually regrets.

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D1OdV TIL PhD students built a supersonic cannon that can fire pingpong balls that break the sound barrier, and shoot clean through steel cans.
L1bQ TIL that St. Augustine of Hippo, a Father of the Church, wrote a prayer as a teenager. It went, “Lord, grant me chastity and continence, but not yet”.
78xw7 TIL Regular Glass Blocks over 90% of harmful UV lights that reach the surface of the Earth
Ywrv TIL Iceland is extremely protective of their language, instead of loaning words from other languages they repurpose old ones, telephone is ‘simi’, meaning thread, jet plane is 'thota’, meaning to zoom and the word for computer, 'tölva’ translates to number priestess or numbers witch.
QJRj9 TIL about the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532, where 169 Spaniards defeated an Inca army 80,000 men. The Incas were outmatched, the Spanish had horses, better equipment and guns that scared the Incas.