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TIL that the unit of measurement for sausage casing is "by the hank". (1 hank = 91 meters)

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wL8VP TIL Hawaii's public education system began in 1841 and is the oldest in the U.S. west of the Mississippi. When the kingdom was overthrown it became illegal to teach the Hawaiian language, teachers were punished for speaking Hawaiian at school. It wasn't until 1978 that the state made it mandatory.
ggRb TIL That in 1959 two pilots managed to keep a plane airborne for 64 days.
N7bnP TIL about Brian, the mentally ill Bonobo who was prescribed Paxil to help with his anxiety but taken off of it a few years later after he started sharing it amongst the other apes
xVPE7 TIL: "He never married" was a commonly used by obituary writers in the United Kingdom as a euphemism for the deceased having being homosexual
9WP7 TIL that the Normandy beach landing scene in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan cost $12Million alone, employed use of over 1,500 extras and has been rated ‘the best battle scene of all time’ by Empire magazine