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TIL that Americans don’t size their papers like A2, A3 or A4 but they use Letter, Legal or Junior Legal.

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Wk1xo TIL that the Ancient Greeks considered gold to be a particularly dense combination of water and sunlight since most of it was found glinting in streams.
ZpZXG Today I learned that for about ten years, ending in 1957, British television schedules had a gap from 6pm-7pm called the 'Toddlers' Truce' where for an hour there was no programming so that parents could put the kiddies to bed.
d6RQ TIL Ecuador are going to sell a third of its Amazon rainforest to Chinese oil companies.
ADZXd TIL Mikhail Kalashnikov regretted creating the AK-47. In a letter to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2012, he said never intended for the rifle to become the preferred weapon in conflicts around the world.
NrVQ TIL the Nepal government now charges $25,000 USD to climb to the upper base camp of Mount Everest.