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TIL “head over heels” was originally “heels over head,” which makes a lot more literal sense

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6E9b8 TIL the first Indian who came out of the woods to meet the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock spoke English and asked if they had any beer...
6EYXQ TIL, against conventional rules of Latin grammar, Toyota declared that the plural of Prius is Prii. (pronounced PREE eye)
jXEa TIL it is predicated that all multicellular life on Earth will die out from a lack of CO2 in the atmosphere in 800 million years, 6.59 billion years before the earth is engulfed by the red giant sun
4X5ja TIL astronauts need to sleep near air vents or risk carbon dioxide from their own lungs forming a bubble around their head due to weightlessness.
v1kEK TIL Any PCT filed patents are also valid and enforced in North Korea as it ratified the Paris Convention on July 8, 1980.